Bidspirit auction | Louis Perceau. Le Cabinet secret

Louis Perceau. Le Cabinet secret du Parnasse. Ronsard et la Pleiade Ex. 281/2500, 1928, in French Recueil de poesies libres, rares ou peu connues… Pierre de Ronsard et la Pleiade. A collection of free, rare or little-known poems… Pierre de Ronsard and the Pleiade. Paris, Cabinet du Livre, 1928. 267 pp. numerotes de 101 a 2500. Exemplaire numero 281 Calf leather, leather edges hard cover, marmoreal board and endpapers, size: 20 x 15 cm. Condition: Cover slightly soiled to leather parts. Foxing to most of pages, mainly to endpapers, frontispieces, title page and edges Weight: 455 gr. Louis Perceau (22 September 1883 – 20 April 1942) was a 20th-century French polygraph. He used several pseudonyms including Helpey bibliographe poitevin, Dr. Ludovico Hernandez, Alexandre de Vérineau, Un vieux journaliste, Radeville et Deschamps, marquis Boniface de Richequeue, sometimes jointly with Fernand Fleuret. Early 1942, he joined the French Resistance and began a lawsuit against the anti-Semitic journal Je suis partout but died soon after.