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8vo (185 × 110 mm), pp. xxxvii, [1] (blank). Woodcut fleuron to title. Title lightly spotted. Preserved in 19th-century boards, green morocco spine label. Spine rubbed. A good copy.
The record of a bizarre case of sexual jealousy. It was brought by Freydier, a lawyer at Nimes, on behalf the eighteen-year-old Marie Lajon against Pierre Berlhe. Berlhe had evidently seduced and kidnapped the young woman, subsequently imprisoning her and forcing her to wear a chasity belt while he was away on his travels. The outcome of the trial is unknown, but Freydier clearly used it as a platform for what has been called an “érudition déplacée” (Gay).
Gay and others cite this as the first edition (a reprint was made in the nineteenth century) but the Bn catalogue records the sole copy of an undated edition from Toulouse which, as a folio, may be the true first edition of the court record. It was not known to Brunet or Gay. Gay notes that copies of our edition are known with 3 added plates, but it was issued as text alone, as here.
Gay and others cite this as the first edition (a reprint was made in the nineteenth century) but the Bn catalogue records the sole copy of an undated edition from Toulouse which, as a folio, may be the true first edition of the court record. It was not known to Brunet or Gay. Gay notes that copies of our edition are known with 3 added plates, but it was issued as text alone, as here.
Gay III, 753-4.
£550.00
