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Encyclopédie générale du calembour d'après MM. Dupin, Sauzet, Soult, Thiers, Guizot, Duchâtel, etc., pour la partie politique ; MM. Balzac, Marco Saint-Hilaire, Altaroche, Claudon, Ch. Baltard, Clavel, Victor Hugo, Bareste, etc., pour la partie littéraire ; MM. H. Herz, Tamburini, Duprez, Listz, Auber, Pilati, Musard, etc., pour la partie musicale. Recueillie et mise en désordre par Joseph Prudhomme ; et qui n'est pas ornée de 12,000 gravures[General Encyclopaedia of Puns, according to Messrs. Dupin, Sauzet, Soult, Thiers, Guizot, Duchâtel, etc., for the political section; Messrs. Balzac, Marco Saint-Hilaire, Altaroche, Claudon, Ch. Baltard, Clavel, Victor Hugo, Bareste, etc., for the literary section; Messrs. H. Herz, Tamburini, Duprez, Liszt, Auber, Pilati, Musard, etc., for the musical section. Collected and put into disorder by Joseph Prudhomme; and not adorned with 12,000 engravings]
Gautier et Monighetti|Moscow 1844|9 x 14 cm|Relié
First edition.
Contemporary-style half tawny calf over marbled paper boards, smooth spine decoratively tooled in blind with double fillets and floral ornaments, bookplate mounted on pastedown, wrappers preserved, speckled edges, modern binding.
A few letters erased in the text on page 35.
Exceptionally rare collection of puns and jeux de mots based on homonymy and paronymy.
The CCFr records only a similar title, though not corresponding to ours: Encyclopédie pittoresque du calembour, printed in Paris without date and comprising 127 pages with illustrations (BnF, Institut, Grenoble), which appears to be an enlarged later edition of our work. In any case, th
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