Les avantures du Baron de Foeneste

New and better critical edition by Le Duchat, with a new foreword, notes, and remarks. Title pages in red and black. This edition contains a preface, the Histoire secrète by Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné, written by himself & addressed to his children, and texts attributed to Maître Guillaume, a pseudonym borrowed from the name of Henri IV's jester and used by satirical authors wishing to remain anonymous: Les Commandements de Maître Guillaume, Réponse de Maître Guillaume au soldat français as well as L'Inventaire des livres trouvés en la bibliothèque de Maître Guillaume.
Contemporary full marbled brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 fleurons, roll tooling at foot. Red morocco title and volume labels. Very narrow crack to upper joint of volume I, at head and foot. Marbled endpapers renewed.
Satire and adventures of a young Gascon under the government of Louis XIII. Some see in it a portrait of the Duke of Epernon.