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Le nouveau secrétaire de la cour, ou, Lettres familiéres sur toutes sortes de sujets, avec des réponses : une instruction pour se former dans le stile épistolaire : le cérémonial des lettres, & les règles de bienséance qu'il faut observer dans les lettres que l'on écrit : avec les titres dont on qualifie toutes sortes de personnes : et, les inscriptions, souscriptions & suscriptions dont le roi se sert, lorsque Sa Majesté écrit aux princes étrangers.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PC2481 .M55 1742
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Milleran, René, approximately 1655- author.
Contributor:
Le Gras, Théodore, 1681-1759, bookseller.
Language:
French
Subjects (All):
Letter writing, French--Early works to 1800.
Letter writing, French.
Letter writing, French--Specimens--Early works to 1800.
Genre:
Specimens.
Early works.
Penn Provenance:
Boyer-Mas, André, 1904-1972 (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)
Physical Description:
[24], 550, [2] pages ; 18 cm
Distribution:
A Paris : Chez Theodore le Gras ..., MDCCXLII [1742]
Other Title:
Nouveau secrétaire de la cour
Lettres familiéres sur toutes sortes de sujets, avec des réponses
Fingerprint:
t.u- ui38 seut MOde (3) 1742 (R)
Notes:
Anonymous: by René Milleran, Originally published in 1714. Attributed to Milleran in NUC pre-1956, v. 384, p. 558; Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes 3:512 attributes a 1737 ed. to Milleran.
With a half-title.
Signatures a¹² A-Z¹² (leaf Z12 blank).
Woodcut title vignette, factotums and head-pieces.
Type ornament head-pieces.
"Inscriptions, souscriptions et suscriptions": Pages 497-550.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center copy has manuscript note regarding the author in pencil on blank leaf preceding half-title leaf.
Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Les Jardin des Muses.
Kislak Center copy has armorial bookplate of André Boyer-Mas (1904-1972) with manuscript shelf-mark ("Cat. insc. no 5.580") on front pastedown.
Kislak Center copy bound in early full mottled calf(?); gold-ruled cover edges; spine tooled in gold; remains of gold-stamped leather spine label ("[...]SE[...] DE LA COUR"); marbled endpapers; green silk marker; all edges red.
Kislak Center copy: gathering R bound in out of order as follows: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, R6, R7. Manuscript notes regarding the error in pencil on R8r and S1r.
Cited in:
Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes tome 3, page 512
Quérard, tome 6, page 132.
NUC pre-1956, volume 384, page 558
OCLC:
915343847

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