[NÈVE, Paul] Les Pourceaux de Bruxelles, peints par eux-mêmes. Bruxelles chez les principaux libraires (imp. Lelong) 1863 In-8°: 13 pp. (qqs annot. mss). Contemporary pink bradel cloth, gilt title throughout, covers included (spine slightly faded). Virulent pamphlet attributed to Paul Nève (1822-1901), editor of the very Catholic "Journal de Bruxelles". He was reacting - thirteen years late! - to an essay published in the "Annulaire agathopédique et saucial", by Argus, pseudonym of the lawyer Édouard Delinge, developing a rather provocative theme for the time: "Can adultery committed on a party wall be considered as perpetrated in the marital home? Nève reproduces this text in full (!), which he attacks in 2 pages of venomous introductory remarks directed against the author, his colleague and co-partner Auguste Orts - without naming them - and the whole of the "bouge des pourceaux de Bruxelles". According to Jules de le Court, he didn't dare give the name of his printer and borrowed that of Lelong, who was obliged to post notices to the effect that this pamphlet had not left his presses. Bound with, same format: [Barattin, Eugène, pseud. de Bochart, Eugène] - Réponse à un infâme pamphlet écrit par un Bruxellois peint par lui-même. Brux, chez les principaux libraires (impr. de P.-J. Leemans et Cie), 1863. Cons. covers. Criticizes both the author of the pamphlet and the agathopedic discourse, rejoicing that the pamphlet had been seized, thus saving the public from reading "this odious factum". Clearly, neither of them had grasped the meaning of the joke. Ref. De le Court 977, 1094. - De Callataÿ & Sorgeloos 142-143 (note 6). Prov. Charles Vandeputte (lithogr. bookplate in color by J. Hoving).