Les portraits parlans ou Tableaux animés

by François Chevillard, d. 1678

$3,000 · Offered by Musinsky Rare Books

8vo 161 x 96 mm . 40 , 136 pp. Woodcut title vignette, tailpieces, and initials, woodcut and typographic headpieces. Printing flaw, p. 123 2 words covered in the press ; slight soiling to title, a few small marginal stains. Contemporary acid-stained calf, smooth spine gold-tooled, edges stained red, marbled endpapers extremities rubbed .***First? Edition of a rare collection of anagrammatic, devotional and occasionally macabre

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