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40. [FRANCE – SATIRE.] Le Papillotage, ouvrage comique et
morale ... Ridendo dicere verum Quid vetat. Hor. ... Vienna, J.-T.
Trattner, 1769. £350
12mo, pp. 153, [3] blank; typographic head-pieces and initials;
contemporary blue sugar-paper over thin wooden boards, corners
bumped, else very clean and crisp; with contemporary ownership
inscription of Monsieur Grenier to title page, and 20th century book
label to front free endpaper.
Vienna reprint of a popular anonymous publication (first 1764) satirising
contemporary French social life and aesthetics, with a mixture of libertine
comment, moral advice, and gentle fun. This ‘papillotage’, aims to have the
reader’s attention oscillate between illusion and awareness. The anonymous
author pokes fun at the shallowness of French society, and its dedication
to fashion or extravagant gardens, and gives a travel account of visiting
northern Italy.
Gay III 623, A. Martin 67.R2; see Conlon 65: 368.
Interim Binding – with Catalogue of Fictitious Books
41. [FRANCE – SATIRE.] Recueil Historique de Chansons
Vaudevilles Epigrammes. Pasquinades qui ont paru, qui paroisent,
& qui paroitron [sic]. Premiere [...Seconde] Partie. ‘A. N. ....’: [n.p.,
n.p.], 1746. £1,400
Two parts in one volume, 8vo, pp. 38, 37–94; 96; uncut in the original
wrappers, or endpapers, spine with stitching exposed, as issued; remains
of mss label to spine; a little dog-eared and some fly-staining to upper
wrapper.
Very rare printed miscellany of manuscript pieces circulated ‘sous le
manteau’, toward the end of the War of the Austrian Succession, with an
overall anti-French and pro-Friderician tone. The work is arranged in two
series of six extended letters commenting on current affairs, scandals etc.,
interspersed with pasquinades, satirical pieces, anagrams and poems and
songs, including some pieces attributed to Voltaire. There also is a brief
catalogue of fictitious books and a listing of new satirical titles for existing
comedies. Typographically interesting is a puzzle revealing the date of the
Louis XIV revocation of the edict of Nantes.
The work is clearly a serial publication and seems to have been printed at
different stages, successive signatures (each containing a letter) are printed
on different paper stock and many conclude with ‘fin’ or a tailpiece at the
foot of the final page.
Conlon 46: 251; Viollet le Duc (Bibl 1857), see Weller II, 119; not in Hatin,
Sgard, or Giraud; OCLC lists copies at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Augsburg and
the Dutch Royal Library only; no copies in the US.
Satirical Testament of Frederick the Great
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42. [FREDERICK THE GREAT – attrib. VOLTAIRE.] Die
Morgenstunden des Königs von Pr.... Oder lehrreiche Vorschriften
an seinen Thronfolger. Aus dem Französischen frei übersetzt,
berichtiget und mit Anmerkungen versehen. Boston, n.p. [prob.
Berlin, n.p.], 1782. £950
12mo, pp. 72, title within typographic border; contemporary boards,
extremities a little rubbed, boards dust-soiled.
First edition in German of Les matinées du roi de Prusse (first 1766), a strident
satire, which purports to be Frederick the Great’s ‘testament’, a kind of
outline of his reign, principles of government, etc. for his heir. It has been
variously ascribed to Voltaire, Benoît Patono, or Nicolas de Bonneville,
and even to the translator Wilhelm Friedrich Karl von Schwerin. Under the
guise of ‘serious’ advice, scurrilous comments are attributed to Frederick
the Great, who had the book banned.
A second edition of this German translation was published in 1783.
ESTC w477149; Leithäuser, Verzeichniss sämmtlicher Ausgaben und Ueber setzungen
der Werke Friedrich des Grossen, 399; Barbier, III, 83 11; see Querard p. 203;
OCLC: Basel only.
Abolitionist Hymns
43. [FRENCH REVOLUTION.] La Lyre de la raison ou hymnes,
cantiques, odes et stances à l’Etre Suprème pour la célébration des
fètes décadaires. Paris, Dufart, 1792. £950