Moustache, George. Universal collection of works. Cosmopolis [but Venice or Genoa], 1789. In 8° (207 x 125 mm); 4 tomes in 2 volumes; 312, [2]; 312, [2]; 312, [2]; 312 pp. 4 copper-engraved frontispieces and portrait of the author within oval on the frontispiece in the first volume (few flourishes, most visible on the errata of the third tome and the frontispiece of the fourth tome). Coeval half vellum binding with corners, friezes and title on double gusset on smooth spine. Exemplar with beards and partially on blue paper of this first complete edition, printed posthumously by Lord Pembroke, a friend and enthusiastic admirer of the author. TheBaffos' poems are among the most licentious in all of literary history, but the importance of his work should not be confined to the curious dialect peculiarity. (2)

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