London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, at the Judge’s Head near the Inner Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1695. First Edition, folio, [A] - D2, text in French and English on facing pages, the French beginning on the verso of the title-page, title a little foxed in the lower margin, disbound.
Prior, as well as being a poet, was a well respected diplomat in the service of King William III. His knowledge of French was recognised by his being sent to Paris in 1698 in attendance on the English Ambassador. He was undoubtedly well equipped to satirise Boileau’s poem.
Wing P3509

Delft : Chez Pierre Boll. 1682. 12mo, 2 vols in 1, [viii], 177, and [ii], 164 pp, fine engraved frontispiece to each part and 6 engravings in Part 1, some signatures browned, later full calf roll-tooled in blind, fine.
Gay/Lemonnyer records this title with just one word “rare” and OCLC locates only 2 copies, both in the British Library and adds [Translated from "Het Kind van Weelde," etc.] Of this Dutch original we trace a single copy in the Dutch National Library.

OCLC: 1064802683 Gay/Lemonnyer Vol. 2. 103

Paris H. Fournier, Libraire-Editeur, Rue Saint-Benoit 7, 1844. First Edition
Royal 8vo, frontis. (iv), 295, (1) pp, half-title and title-page printed in red, 36 plates part-coloured by hand as issued, over 140 black-and-white illustrations in the text, occasional light foxing mainly in the prelims., 19th century half russia, marbled boards, marbled edges and endpapers, recently re-backed, boards a little rubbed but a sound copy.
Grandville’s most important book; an extraordinary imaginative tour de force; an inspirational fantasy which undoubtedly had an influence well into the twentieth century. That influence can be seen in Tenniel’s illustration to Alice; Max Ernst and the Surrealists as well as the likes of Ralph Steadman and Gerald Scarfe.
Ray 196 Carteret v3, 285