Satirical poems of the eighteenth century, London, 1782
2 volumes in-sixteenth
Marbled calf leather of the period, gilded filets framing the covers, smooth spines decorated with gilded motifs, interior roulette motifs, gilded edges.
Selection of spiritual and sharp epigrams and poems by Voltaire, Piron, Dorat...
Decorated with two frontispieces by Marillier.
"Rare and sought after when the volume II does have the pages 225 to 228" (Brunet). These pages contain a curious and very free-spirited poem by Dorat entitled "To she that shall recognize
herself".
Gay-Lemonnyer III, 800
(Small faults in the bindings)