73 - [LOUIS XVIII]. Account of a Journey to Brussels and Koblenz (1791).

[LOUIS XVIII]. Account of a Journey to Brussels and Koblenz (1791). Paris, Domère, 1823, in-16, 139 pages. Bound in bottle-green half-maroquin, with corners, ribbed spine, and gilt head. (19th-century binding). - Slight scuffing and some discoloration on the binding, scattered small foxing spots, light stain on the title page (discoloration caused by a bookmark). Ten editions of this account of Monsieur’s escape were published that same year. (Barbier IV, 201). - [ROQUELAURE (Gaston-Jean-Baptiste)] (1617–1676). The Entertaining Adventures of the Duke of Roquelaure. Based on the Memoirs the Author Found in the Cabinet of Marshal d’H... Paris, Tiger, (circa 1780); in-16, 111 pp. (pagination errors).—Frontispiece. Red half-shagreen, ribbed spine. (19th-century binding). - Engraved bookplate: Ex musaeo Elz. Pin. Fresh copy. Engraved frontispiece in intaglio, showing the duke in an alcove, gazing at two cradles. The Duke of Roquelaure (1617–1676), nicknamed “the ugliest man in France,” nevertheless enjoyed a strong popular reputation as a jester, cheerful and obscene. This collection of licentious jokes, certainly apocryphal, was published in Cologne in 1727. It also belongs to the Bibliothèque Bleue (Nisard I, 231—Oberlé, Cat. 20, describes prints from Rouen and Evreux, early 19th century).