Chambolle-Duru, binders.- Tabarin (Jean Salomon, called) Recueil General des Oeuvres et Fantasies de Tabarin..., pirated edition, title with woodcut ornament, woodcut initials and typographical head-pieces, small armorial bookplate of Comte Joseph de Lagonde, bound in charming red morocco, by Chambolle-Duru, covers with triple gilt fillet and ornamental corner-pieces of volutes, dots and stars tooled in gilt, spine gilt in compartments with title, ornaments and five raised bands, doublures of citron morocco with red and green morocco shaped onlays and elaborately tooled in gilt with strapwork, volutes, dots and stars, marbled endpapers and fly-leaves, g.e., signed at foot of front turn-in and dated 1865, very slight rubbing to edges, modern marbled board slip-case, [Willems 1734], 12mo (binding c.130 x 70mm.), Rouen [The Hague, Elzevier], Loüys du Mesnil, 1664.

⁂ Tabarin was the street name of the Parisian Anthoine Girard (c.1584-1633), a charlatan who amassed a fortune selling quack medicines while performing farcical dialogues with his brother in the Place Dauphine. Many works were attributed to him and this is a pirated reprint of the Rouen Geuffory edition of 1627, without the Rencontres of Gratelard as mentioned on the title but with the first appearance of the second part of the Farces Tabarinques and a final part Les avantures et amours du capitaine Rodomont.

Chambolle-Duru was one of the most significant late 19th century Parisian bookbinding firms. Founded by René Chambolle and Hippolyte Duru, to whom Chambolle had been apprenticed but who left after only a few years, the name was continued by Chambolle's son up until the First World War.