Recueil dit de Maurepas, pièces libres, chansons, épigrammes et autres vers satiriques sur divers personnages des siècles de Louis XIV et Louis XV, accompagnés de remarques curieuses du temps ; publiés pour la première fois d'après les manuscrits conservés à la Bibliothèque impériale

First edition from a limited printing of 116 copies. Unnumbered copy on Holland paper. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary half red shagreen binding with corners. Spine with raised bands richly decorated. Double fillet border on boards. Top edge gilt. Dark spotting to spine of volume 4, one spot on volume 3 and spine of volume 6. Traces of rubbing. Uncut copy.
Minister to Louis XV, the Count de Maurepas commissioned Pierre de Clairambault, genealogist, to compile all the libertine pieces written under Louis XIV and Louis XV, resulting in 40 volumes. The selection of pieces contained in Poulet-Malassis's collection is attributed to Jules Gay, the latter having judiciously retained only the most libertine, most scandalous and most frivolous pieces, all freed from circumstantial pieces, panegyrics and other idle dissertations. Numerous historical figures appear, portrayed with quite surprising erotic license and treated in an outrageous manner.
Alphabetical table of songs, epigrams, etc. contained in the Maurepas collection, alphabetical table of characters contained in the pieces, and index in volume VI.