(CHAPBOOK). ~ Les Monsieur Tétu et de Miss Patience, dans leur voyage vers la terre du bonheur... ‘A Paris: chez les Marchands de Nouveautés’ [but probably Chalopin in Caen], 1786.
12mo (150 × 90 mm), pp. 36. Woodcut vignette frontispiece. Slight worming to gutter towards the foot, and a tiny track to the lower margin. Stitched in contemporary pale blue wrappers. Small tear to head of spine, slight creasing but very good.
A Caen Bibliothèque bleue issue of a popular moral romance tale that had also appeared with an apparently genuine Paris imprint in the same year. It is a French version of an English chapbook title issued by Elizabeth Newbery The Adventures of Master Headstrong, and Miss Patient, in their Journey towards the Land of Happiness, ?1785 (Roscoe, J6 (4); ESTC N29522). The subtitle reads: ‘Un récit des différentes traverses qu’éprouva M. Tétu, en abandonnant Miss Patience pour écouter Miss Passion, et ne voulan pas permettre à Madame la Raison, qu’ils rencontrèrent sur leaur route, de les diriger dans leur voyage’. The much-degraded woodcut (evidently reused from stock) bears a rather garbled version of the English caption in the original: ‘The rage of Passion will not staty [sic]; But Patience makes a wise delay’. Hélot, Bibliothèque bleue, 18