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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 BRUNET (178o-1867)  , French bibliographer, was born in Paris on the 2nd of 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 Duclos and Cailleau . In 1810 there appeared the first edition of his Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur
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des livres (3 vols.) . Brunet published successive
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editions of his
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great bibliographical
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dictionary, which rapidly came to be recognized as the first
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book of its class in
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European literature . He died on the 14th of November 1867 . Among his other
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works are Nouvelles Recherches bibliographiques (1834), Recherches . . . sur
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les editions originales . . . de Rabelais (1852), and an edition of the French poems of J . G . Alione d'Asti, dating from the beginning of the 16th century (1836) . See also a
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notice by Le Roux de Lincy, prefixed to the 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 .

Deschamps and G . Brunet .

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