De Vessaire [pseudonym]. Caquire: Parodie de Zaïre.
De Vessaire [pseudonym]. Caquire: Parodie de Zaïre, Seconde édition, considérablement emmerdée.
'Á Chio' [but Paris]: Imprimerie d'Avalons, n.d. [but 1780 or 1783].
8vo. 179 x 112 mm. Engraved frontispiece and 104 numbered pp. Frontispiece, title, and final leaf skilfully repaired including lacks, occasional very minor staining, not touching text, occasional light marginal dampstaining, sometimes touching text, title and frontis slightly discoloured, but generally good and clean internally. Late 19th-century French quarter sheep gilt over marbled paper boards.
Scarce. Engraved frontis of a man and a woman in rural costume shitting and farting (respectively) on top of the tomb of the pseudonymous author. Apparently the first edition of this scatological parody of Voltaire's 1732 play Zaire, a highly popular five-act tragedy, attributed most commonly to Charles-Jean de Combles (1735-1803), a councillor in Lyon, or Benoit-Michel de Camberousse (1754-1841). The play features characters with names that play on the French word for ‘poo’: Merdillon, Merdedor, and the fantastically named Crotenmain, or ‘Crap-in-hand’. This copy differs from the BnF in its pagination, that copy having 78pp. and the frontis, but the contents appear to be the same.
3 copies only of this edition on Worldcat, no copies on ABE.
De Vessaire [pseudonym]. Caquire: Parodie de Zaïre, Seconde édition, considérablement emmerdée.
'Á Chio' [but Paris]: Imprimerie d'Avalons, n.d. [but 1780 or 1783].
8vo. 179 x 112 mm. Engraved frontispiece and 104 numbered pp. Frontispiece, title, and final leaf skilfully repaired including lacks, occasional very minor staining, not touching text, occasional light marginal dampstaining, sometimes touching text, title and frontis slightly discoloured, but generally good and clean internally. Late 19th-century French quarter sheep gilt over marbled paper boards.
Scarce. Engraved frontis of a man and a woman in rural costume shitting and farting (respectively) on top of the tomb of the pseudonymous author. Apparently the first edition of this scatological parody of Voltaire's 1732 play Zaire, a highly popular five-act tragedy, attributed most commonly to Charles-Jean de Combles (1735-1803), a councillor in Lyon, or Benoit-Michel de Camberousse (1754-1841). The play features characters with names that play on the French word for ‘poo’: Merdillon, Merdedor, and the fantastically named Crotenmain, or ‘Crap-in-hand’. This copy differs from the BnF in its pagination, that copy having 78pp. and the frontis, but the contents appear to be the same.
3 copies only of this edition on Worldcat, no copies on ABE.
De Vessaire [pseudonym]. Caquire: Parodie de Zaïre, Seconde édition, considérablement emmerdée.
'Á Chio' [but Paris]: Imprimerie d'Avalons, n.d. [but 1780 or 1783].
8vo. 179 x 112 mm. Engraved frontispiece and 104 numbered pp. Frontispiece, title, and final leaf skilfully repaired including lacks, occasional very minor staining, not touching text, occasional light marginal dampstaining, sometimes touching text, title and frontis slightly discoloured, but generally good and clean internally. Late 19th-century French quarter sheep gilt over marbled paper boards.
Scarce. Engraved frontis of a man and a woman in rural costume shitting and farting (respectively) on top of the tomb of the pseudonymous author. Apparently the first edition of this scatological parody of Voltaire's 1732 play Zaire, a highly popular five-act tragedy, attributed most commonly to Charles-Jean de Combles (1735-1803), a councillor in Lyon, or Benoit-Michel de Camberousse (1754-1841). The play features characters with names that play on the French word for ‘poo’: Merdillon, Merdedor, and the fantastically named Crotenmain, or ‘Crap-in-hand’. This copy differs from the BnF in its pagination, that copy having 78pp. and the frontis, but the contents appear to be the same.
3 copies only of this edition on Worldcat, no copies on ABE.