PARIS, Haut-coeur & Gayet, 1821. First editions.

Hardcovers. Contemporary full leather with gilt spine decorations and spine tabels (Tome 1 spine is repaired), octavos.
Three volumes of a four volume set.
Volume 1 (Tome 1 1ére partie): pages 1 to 529;
includes: - avis de l’éditeur
- table des abréviations
- table des renvois du Tome 1er
Volume 2 (Tome 1er 2ème partie): pages 530 to 984.
Volume 3 (Tome 2ème): pages 1 to 572;
includes: - table des renvois des tomes 2 et 3
We do not have the 4th volume (i.e., Tome 3, NAAM - ZYPOE) of the Dictionnire.

An abridged dictionary of universal history, in alphabetical order, showing the best authors and the best books, the masterpieces of famous artists. It contains a summary of the lives of many thousands illustrious and famous people from all countries of the world, and from ancient and modern times.

Étienne-Gabriel Peignot (15 May 1767 – 14 August 1849) was a 19th-century French bibliographer.

Biography
First a lawyer in Besançon, Gabriel Peignot was a librarian and inspector of several institutions. He was a member of the Académie celtique of Paris, and of several literary societies.

Peignot was one of the most famous bibliographers of his time. Pierre Larousse in his edition of the 19th century encyclopedia states:

Peignot was the most learned bibliographer of this century. His learning was immense. To in-depth science books, he joined informed criticism. [...] His bibliographic taste had become a passion of which old books were mainly the object. This spiritual, gay, hard-working, selfless scholar composed innumerable small writings, most printed in small numbers, and much sought by curious; they dealt with spiky or little known features.