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BÉROALDE DE VERVILLE, FRANÇOIS. Le Moyen de Parvenir. Oevvre contenant la Raison de tout ce qui a esté, est, & sera. [4], 617 [i. e., 594], [3] pages, including final blank. 16mo, late 19th-/early 20th-century Jansenist-style red levant; contents washed, margins trimmed affecting some headlines, discreet marginal repairs on title. Np, "Imprimée ceste année" [i. e., early 17th century]
Early edition of a satirical dialogue patterned after Plato's Symposium. "Written in a Rabelaisian style, the dialogue satirizes contemporary views and mannerisms. Often coarse in its humour and criticized in its day for its obscenity, it is an interesting introduction to satirical form and to the baroque mentality at the end of the 16th c." (NOCLF). The pagination in this edition omits pages 169-178, 563-574, and 599-600; also, pages 410 and 411 are numbered 408 and 419, page 503 is numbered 50, and page 615 is numbered 651. Cf. Tchemerzine (1977) I, 679-82. From the library of Lucius Wilmerding, with his Rockwell Kent bookplates (sale, 29 October 1951, lot 98).
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