Elie Josset

Third edition stated. The first edition was published in 1671. Printer's device on title page, with fleur-de-lys.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Decorated raised band spine. Brown sheep title-label. One hole at foot. Overall rubbed.
The success of this treatise on civility led to its reprinting more than 15 times until 1730. Written for a friend of the author who wanted to send his son to Court, the work particularly emphasizes respect for etiquette and the behavior that a gentleman should display. The treatise encompasses all activities of a gentleman: cleanliness, dancing, relations with servants, superiors, table manners...

First edition. This copy has an autograph inscription from Pierre Nicole to his student and friend M. [Louis] Angran. It also contains two manuscript additions (pp. 48 and 329), most probably from the hand of the author.

Contemporary speckled sheep. Spine in six compartments with gilt fleurons. Gilt roulettes to head- and tail-pieces. All edges speckled red. Two little wormholes to spine, a few more to covers. Joints rubbed and a little cracked. Library label to pastedown.

Louis Angran (1622-1706), from an important family of magistrates near Port-Royal, with ties of kinship to the Arnaulds, was a student of Pierre Nicole alongside Jean Racine in the “littl