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JACQUES CHARLES BRUNET (178o-1867)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 683 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:BRUNET (178o-1867)  , See also:French bibliographer, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 2nd of See also:November 1780 . He was the son of a bookseller, and in 1802 he printed a supplement to the Dictionnaire bibliographique de livres rares (1790) of See also:Duclos and Cailleau . In 1810 there appeared the first edition of his See also:Manuel du libraire et de l'See also:amateur See also:des livres (3 vols.) . See also:Brunet published successive See also:editions of his See also:great See also:bibliographical See also:dictionary, which rapidly came to be recognized as the first See also:book of its class in See also:European literature . He died on the 14th of November 1867 . Among his other See also:works are Nouvelles Recherches bibliographiques (1834), Recherches . . . sur See also:les editions originales . . . de See also:Rabelais (1852), and an edition of the French poems of J . G . Alione d'See also:Asti, dating from the beginning of the 16th See also:century (1836) . See also a See also:notice by Le Roux de Lincy, prefixed to the See also:catalogue (1868) of his own valuable library . A supplement to the 5th edition (1860-1865) of the Manuel du libraire was published (1878–188o) by P .

See also:

Deschamps and G . Brunet .

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