[César-François Oudin de PRÉFONTAINE]
Recueil de diverses pièces comiques, gaillardes, et amoureuses dont les Titres se trouvent à la page suivante. [Collection of Various Comic, Bawdy, and Amorous Novellas, the Titles of Which Are Found on the Following Page]
Suivant la Copie imprimée à Paris chez Jean-Baptiste Loyson • [Lambert Marchant] • or [Pierre Vleugart]|[Brussels] 1671|8 x 13.5 cm|Relié
One of the first collected editions of these seven comic novellas, initially printed separately, by the Sieur de Préfontaine, regarded as a first-rate author by Charles Louandre: "without seeking to diminish in any way the merit of Boileau, without disputing his title as legislator of taste, one may say that Charles Sorel, Furetière, Préfontaine, [...] contributed alongside him and before him to cleansing the French Parnassus."
The first edition of one of the short stories contained in this volume, L'Assemblée des filoux et des filles de joie, is to this day lost; its earliest version is thus found in the 1671 editions.
Early nineteenth-century binding in full brown long-grain morocco...
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