[CAYLUS, Anne Claude Philippe, comte de] Le bordel ou Le Jean-Foutre puni. Comedy in three acts & prose. À Pousse-fort s.n. 1773 In-12: [2] pp. pp. [61]-122 (qqs pale rouss.). Mod. black half-percaline, marbled paper boards, spine mute. A curious copy with a title addressed to Pousse-fort, but dated earlier than the 1775 date cited by bibliographers, the text apparently being taken from one of the first editions of the "Théâtre gaillard" (in vol. I of the "Glascow" ed., 1776, "Le bordel" occupies pp. 63-125: cf. Pia 1411). Ref. Cp. Barbier I:448 (Pousse-fort, 1775, in-12). - BGL I:421 (id.). - Dutel A-157 (id., 44 pp.). Prov. Pierre Louÿs (ms. notation in pencil on back cover).

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