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OLIVIER (Jacques). Alphabet de l'imperfection et malice des femmes. Reveu, corrigé et augmenté d'un friand dessert, et de plusieurs histoires pour les Courtisans et Partisans de la Femme Mondaine. Dedicated to the baddest woman in the world. Paris, Barraud, 1876. In-8 fawn half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title, cover illustrated by Henry Somm preserved (rel. post.). New edition of this 17th-century text, printed in an edition of 1002 numbered copies; n°170 of 300 on Hollande. The foreword is by Philomneste junior. This edition is decorated with 24 vignettes at the head of each chapter, 7 figures engraved outside the text, all in etchings drawn by Gilbert and engraved by Cattelain, and 22 culs-de-lampe after Choffard. Scattered spotting (pronounced in places). "M. Paul Lacroix (note inserted in the Pixerécourt catalog, 1838, n°1522) has no doubt that Jacq. Olivier had Queen Marguerite de France, Henri IV's first wife, in mind when he dedicated this book to the worst of them all; We recognize her not only in the figure on the frontispiece, but also in the satirical portrait the author has drawn of her, without naming her, at the head of this strange preface, where he calls her "the most imperfect creature in the universe, the scum of nature, the seminary of misfortunes, the source of quarrels, the plaything of fools, the scourge of wisdom, the firebrand of hell, the match of vice, etc.". This dedicatory epistle is reproduced, except for a few passages that are a little crude for our times, in L.-J. Larcher's SATIRES ET DIATRIBES CONTRE LES FEMMES, L'AMOUR ET LE MARIAGE, Paris, 1860, p. 180-190. Several responses have been made to this diatribe against women [...]" (Gay I, 69.)

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OLIVIER (Jacques). Alphabet de l'imperfection et malice des femmes. Reveu, corrigé et augmenté d'un friand dessert, et de plusieurs histoires pour les Courtisans et Partisans de la Femme Mondaine. Dedicated to the baddest woman in the world. Paris, Barraud, 1876. In-8 fawn half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title, cover illustrated by Henry Somm preserved (rel. post.). New edition of this 17th-century text, printed in an edition of 1002 numbered copies; n°170 of 300 on Hollande. The foreword is by Philomneste junior. This edition is decorated with 24 vignettes at the head of each chapter, 7 figures engraved outside the text, all in etchings drawn by Gilbert and engraved by Cattelain, and 22 culs-de-lampe after Choffard. Scattered spotting (pronounced in places). "M. Paul Lacroix (note inserted in the Pixerécourt catalog, 1838, n°1522) has no doubt that Jacq. Olivier had Queen Marguerite de France, Henri IV's first wife, in mind when he dedicated this book to the worst of them all; We recognize her not only in the figure on the frontispiece, but also in the satirical portrait the author has drawn of her, without naming her, at the head of this strange preface, where he calls her "the most imperfect creature in the universe, the scum of nature, the seminary of misfortunes, the source of quarrels, the plaything of fools, the scourge of wisdom, the firebrand of hell, the match of vice, etc.". This dedicatory epistle is reproduced, except for a few passages that are a little crude for our times, in L.-J. Larcher's SATIRES ET DIATRIBES CONTRE LES FEMMES, L'AMOUR ET LE MARIAGE, Paris, 1860, p. 180-190. Several responses have been made to this diatribe against women [...]" (Gay I, 69.)

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