Sur l'Air des Pendus.
[Rotterdam: Fritsch and Böhm, 1712.]
Engraved plate with letterpress, sheet 180 x 215mm (7 x 8½"). Repaired tears, original binding folds. Damaged.
A plate illustrating a poem in François Gacon's 'L'Anti-Rousseau, par le poe`te sans fard', a satire of the works of Jean Baptiste Rousseau. It tells of the son of a shoemaker (like Rousseau) who grows up and renounces his father and gets possessed by the devil.
[Ref: 60137] £130.00
Engraved plate with letterpress, sheet 180 x 215mm (7 x 8½"). Repaired tears, original binding folds. Damaged.
A plate illustrating a poem in François Gacon's 'L'Anti-Rousseau, par le poe`te sans fard', a satire of the works of Jean Baptiste Rousseau. It tells of the son of a shoemaker (like Rousseau) who grows up and renounces his father and gets possessed by the devil.
[Ref: 60137] £130.00