JAQUES, Jacque. Le Faut-Mourir...
JAQUES, Jacque.
Le Faut-Mourir Et Les Excuses Inutiles Qu’on Apporte á cette necessité… Augmenté de L’Avocat nouvellement marie, & des Pensées Sur L’Eternité.
Lyon: Chez Le Veuve C. Chavancé, 1691.
12mo., contemporary sheep binding, five raised bands to spine with lettering in gilt direct, and gilt decorative fleurons and arabesque corner pieces in compartments; fully engraved title page showing a kneeling figure waiting to be crowned whilst the figures of death, members of the clergy and soldiers look on; pp. [x], 503, [i]; binding bumped and worn at edges, ffep coming loose; corners at head of spine, exposing the headband; two scratches to upper board; worm tracks affecting .11-22; contemporary Ex Libris in ink to title; still a very good copy of an incredibly scarce work. Provenance: with bookplate of the writer John Fowles to the front paste-down, photocopied extract from Brunet pasted in at end, short typed note, some marks and translated words in margins. Red ink word ‘L’a lis’ on blank margin of last page of preface & ownership inscription of Joseph Nudery, Sacerdote to title.
Rare edition of this highly popular work on death and bargaining. The engraved title is taken from the Jean Coutanoz edition, by some quirk of Lyon printing convention, and seems to have appeared in other Lyon editions well into the 18th century.
Disraeli makes mention of Le Faut-Mourir in his Curiosities as being in a class of burlesque death poetry which is particular to France, the like of which never appeared in England. It appeared in numerous editions, and also forms part of the Danse Macabre canon. In it, our hapless doctor, surgeon, usurer, merchant and others try their feeble excuses to try to escape death. A typed slip, likely from Fowles, loosely inserted between pages 442/3 contains a note stating the partisan ‘seems to be more in the sense of a tax-collector’.
We can trace only one copy of this work institutionally, at the Bibliothèque Muncipale de Lyon.
JAQUES, Jacque.
Le Faut-Mourir Et Les Excuses Inutiles Qu’on Apporte á cette necessité… Augmenté de L’Avocat nouvellement marie, & des Pensées Sur L’Eternité.
Lyon: Chez Le Veuve C. Chavancé, 1691.
12mo., contemporary sheep binding, five raised bands to spine with lettering in gilt direct, and gilt decorative fleurons and arabesque corner pieces in compartments; fully engraved title page showing a kneeling figure waiting to be crowned whilst the figures of death, members of the clergy and soldiers look on; pp. [x], 503, [i]; binding bumped and worn at edges, ffep coming loose; corners at head of spine, exposing the headband; two scratches to upper board; worm tracks affecting .11-22; contemporary Ex Libris in ink to title; still a very good copy of an incredibly scarce work. Provenance: with bookplate of the writer John Fowles to the front paste-down, photocopied extract from Brunet pasted in at end, short typed note, some marks and translated words in margins. Red ink word ‘L’a lis’ on blank margin of last page of preface & ownership inscription of Joseph Nudery, Sacerdote to title.
Rare edition of this highly popular work on death and bargaining. The engraved title is taken from the Jean Coutanoz edition, by some quirk of Lyon printing convention, and seems to have appeared in other Lyon editions well into the 18th century.
Disraeli makes mention of Le Faut-Mourir in his Curiosities as being in a class of burlesque death poetry which is particular to France, the like of which never appeared in England. It appeared in numerous editions, and also forms part of the Danse Macabre canon. In it, our hapless doctor, surgeon, usurer, merchant and others try their feeble excuses to try to escape death. A typed slip, likely from Fowles, loosely inserted between pages 442/3 contains a note stating the partisan ‘seems to be more in the sense of a tax-collector’.
We can trace only one copy of this work institutionally, at the Bibliothèque Muncipale de Lyon.
JAQUES, Jacque.
Le Faut-Mourir Et Les Excuses Inutiles Qu’on Apporte á cette necessité… Augmenté de L’Avocat nouvellement marie, & des Pensées Sur L’Eternité.
Lyon: Chez Le Veuve C. Chavancé, 1691.
12mo., contemporary sheep binding, five raised bands to spine with lettering in gilt direct, and gilt decorative fleurons and arabesque corner pieces in compartments; fully engraved title page showing a kneeling figure waiting to be crowned whilst the figures of death, members of the clergy and soldiers look on; pp. [x], 503, [i]; binding bumped and worn at edges, ffep coming loose; corners at head of spine, exposing the headband; two scratches to upper board; worm tracks affecting .11-22; contemporary Ex Libris in ink to title; still a very good copy of an incredibly scarce work. Provenance: with bookplate of the writer John Fowles to the front paste-down, photocopied extract from Brunet pasted in at end, short typed note, some marks and translated words in margins. Red ink word ‘L’a lis’ on blank margin of last page of preface & ownership inscription of Joseph Nudery, Sacerdote to title.
Rare edition of this highly popular work on death and bargaining. The engraved title is taken from the Jean Coutanoz edition, by some quirk of Lyon printing convention, and seems to have appeared in other Lyon editions well into the 18th century.
Disraeli makes mention of Le Faut-Mourir in his Curiosities as being in a class of burlesque death poetry which is particular to France, the like of which never appeared in England. It appeared in numerous editions, and also forms part of the Danse Macabre canon. In it, our hapless doctor, surgeon, usurer, merchant and others try their feeble excuses to try to escape death. A typed slip, likely from Fowles, loosely inserted between pages 442/3 contains a note stating the partisan ‘seems to be more in the sense of a tax-collector’.
We can trace only one copy of this work institutionally, at the Bibliothèque Muncipale de Lyon.