Octave Uzanne

Octave Uzanne was a French journalist, publisher, writer, literary historian, bibliophile and architect (1851–1931). He was born at Auxerre and died at Saint-Cloud.

Also recorded as Louis Octave Uzanne; Louis-Octave Uzanne; Uzanne.

Octave Uzanne in brief

Born
1851
Died
1931
Known for
journalist, publisher, writer, literary historian, bibliophile and architect
Place of birth
Auxerre
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Identity and origins

He also worked under the names Jehan Du Guet, Louis de Villotte and La Cagoule. The authorities additionally record the headings Louis Octave Uzanne, Louis-Octave Uzanne and Uzanne. His recorded language was French.

Catalogued works

32 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1882 to 2008.

The End of Books. Caprices d'un Bibliophile. Sunshade. Modern Parisienne. La Française du siècle. Notes Pour la Bibliographie du Xixe Siècle. Française du Siècle. Études de Sociologie Féminine. La locomotion à travers l'histoire et les moeurs. El fin de los libros. Contes. Bouquinistes et Bouquineurs. Physiologie des Quais de Paris du Pont Royal Au Pont Sully. Illustrations d'E. Mas. Sunshade, the Glove, - the Muff. Deux Canaletto. Badauderies Parisiennes. les Rassemblements. Book-Hunter in Paris; Studies among the Bookstalls and the Quays. with a Preface by Augustine Birrell. Miroir du Monde; Notes et Sensations de la Vie Pittoresque. Locomotion À Travers l'histoire et les Moeurs. Nos Amis les Livres. Contes Pour les Bibliophiles. Livre Moderne. Le calendrier de Vénus. Canaletto. The Fan. Masonic Bookplates. Fashion in Paris. La Femme à Paris, Nos Contemporaires, dated 1894, held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory 54.566.4. L'éventail, dated 1882, held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory GT2150 .U8 1882. Baudauderies Parisiennes: Les Rassemblements, dated 1896, held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inventory 1986.1190. La locomotion à travers l'histoire et les moeurs / par Octave Uzanne ; illustrations dans le texte et hors texte de Eugène Courboin ; nombreuses reproductions d'estampes anciennes., dated 1900, held by Wellcome Collection. Modern book-plates and their designers : being the Winter number of the Stvdio., dated 1898-1899, held by Wellcome Collection. The new bibliopolis : French book collectors and the culture of print, 1880-1914 / Willa Z. Silverman., dated [2008], held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 12 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 3 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

4 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Uzanne, Octave, Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens Online. CMXLIV bis. — A Octave Uzanne., Stephane Mallarme, 2017. Octave Uzanne : Notes aux portraits de…, Le portrait, 2013. Uzanne, Octave, (14 Sept. 1852–31 Oct. 1931), essayist and art-writer; Président-fondateur (1889) of Bibliophiles Contemporains Society, journalist and traveller, Who Was Who, 2007.

Digitised editions and texts

15 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg.

Fashion in Paris: the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from ... (1901) — Internet Archive. La Reliure moderne (1887) — Internet Archive. La Fin des Livres — Internet Archive. Contes Pour Les Bibliophiles (1894) — Internet Archive. Les Ornements de la Femme : L'Eventail, L'Ombrelle, Le Gant, Le Manchon (1892) — Internet Archive. Le Livre moderne: revue du monde littéraire et des bibliophiles contemporains (1891) — Internet Archive. The Fan: By Octave Uzanne Illustrated by Paul Avril. (1884) — Internet Archive. Poésies diverses du chevalier de Boufflers (1886) — Internet Archive. The Frenchwoman of the Century: Fashions - Manners - Usages (1887) — Internet Archive. Contes de Restif de la Bretonne — Internet Archive. Contes de J. Cazotte ... (1880) — Internet Archive. Contes de Augustin-Paradis de Moncrif ... (1879) — Internet Archive. The Sunshade, the Glove, the Muff — Project Gutenberg. Le calendrier de Vénus — Project Gutenberg. Caprices d'un Bibliophile — Project Gutenberg.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 10 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 12 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1851Octave Uzanne born at Auxerre.
  2. 1887La Reliure moderne digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 1891Le Livre moderne: revue du monde littéraire et des bibliophiles contemporains digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 1892Les Ornements de la Femme : L'Eventail, L'Ombrelle, Le Gant, Le Manchon digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 1894Contes Pour Les Bibliophiles digitised by Internet Archive.
  6. 1901Fashion in Paris: the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from ... digitised by Internet Archive.
  7. 1931Octave Uzanne died at Saint-Cloud.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    “Octave Uzanne”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q960277: Octave Uzanne

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