BILLAUT, Adam. *Le Vilebrequin* by Master Adam, a carpenter from Nevers.

BILLAUT, Adam. *Le Vilebrequin* by Master Adam, a carpenter from Nevers. A rare first edition published one year after the death of its author, the poet and carpenter Adam Billaut (1602–1662), known as “the Virgil with the plane” or “the Carpenter of Nevers.” Paris, Guillaume de Luyne, 1663. In-12, full brown speckled calfskin, ribbed spine decorated with fleurons and the title in gilt lettering, ornate edges, red speckled edges (period patina). 22 unnumbered folios, 528 pages, and

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