(WINE). ~ Sermon de Bacchus, avec le chanson: Bon bon bon, que le vin est bon. Dédié aux vrais buveurs. Troyes: Baudot, [n.d., c. 1830 à 1848].
12mo (140 × 88 mm), pp. 12. Stitched in printed yellow wrapper with woodcut vignette. Slightly thumbed and minimally frayed.
A popular satirical sermon on the joys and benefits of drinking, complete with a song, various, exemplary Latin quotations (’Bonum vinum loetificat cor hominis’, ‘Qui bene bibit bene dormit’ etc), an Ordonnance addressed to wives of drinkers and a mock dialogue between husband and wife. It is a version of the various sermons for drinkers printed in popular Bibliothèque bleu editions. The rear cover lists eighty titles supplied by Baudot including Art de tirer les cartes, Chansonnier des buveurs, Jardin d’amour, Magie naturelle and numerous fairy tales. Morin, Catalogue descriptif de la Bibliothèque bleue de Troyes, 1035