Poésies en patois du Dauphiné. Grenoblo Malhérou par Blanc di La Goutte

Illustrated edition with drawings by D. Rahoult and numerous wood engravings by E. Dardelet (Vicaire I, 812–813; Carteret III, 95–96).

Preface by George Sand. Grenoble, Rahoult et Dardelet, 1864–1874, issued in two parts bound in one volume, large quarto.

Half brown morocco over corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons and blind tooling, minor rubbing to the spine, covers of marbled paper framed with double gilt fillets, surface wear to the boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt top edge.

The first part, issued in nine instalments between 1859 and 1864, consists of a poem in local patois on the flooding of Grenoble in 1733, first published in that year.

The author, François Blanc (1662–1742), known as La Goutte, was a grocer in Grenoble, described as “impotent and consumed by gout”.

The second part, published in 1874 and illustrated by the same artists, contains a copy of the letter written by François Blanc to one of his friends concerning the flood that struck Grenoble on 20 December 1740; Jacquety de le Comare by the same author (pp. [23]–53); and a glossary by Michal-Ladichère (pp. [55]–78).

These last two items appear to be lacking from the copies described by Vicaire and Carteret, who record only 21 pages.

Printed stamp used as an ex-libris of G. Magnin of Grenoble on an endpaper.

Some foxing, and a light waterstain in the right-hand margin of a few leaves.