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1635. BOOK. (LITERATURE—GOLDEN AGE). QUEVEDO VILLEGAS, FRANCISCO DE:. CHILDHOOD TOYS AND THE PRANKS OF THE MIND. Barcelona: Lorenço Dev, 1635. Small 8vo. Laminated title page (date barely legible) + 144 folios. Palau 244285. [Continued:] THE CRADLE AND THE GRAVE, FOR SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND DISILLUSIONMENT REGARDING THINGS BEYOND ONE’S CONTROL. Id. 42 folios. Palau 244272, text from the first edition. [Continued:] LETTER TO THE MOST SERENE, MOST HIGH, AND MOST POWERFUL LOUIS XIII. THE MOST CHRISTIAN KING OF FRANCE. Id. By Pedro Lacavalleria, 1635. Title page + 22 folios. Of these, folios 6 and 22 have been damaged, and there is a handwritten note in the margin of folio 7. Palau 244295. [Continued:] EPICTETUS AND PHOCILIDES IN SPANISH WITH CONSONANTS... Barcelona: Sebastian and Iaume Matevad, 1635. 4 h. + 95 fol. CCPB 49534-4. FIRST EDITION. Bound in a single volume in period parchment, with a labeled spine. A collection of four works by Quevedo published during the writer’s lifetime; these are very early editions of these texts, one of which is a first edition. “The Toys of Childhood” is the title Quevedo was forced to give to “The Dreams” following the process of censorship, modification, and allegorization of many passages that had originally provoked the wrath of the social classes depicted, especially the Church.