Paris : Jouxte la coppie imprimee a Rouen. 1634. 8vo, [iv], 734, [16] pps, contemporary vellum, yapp fore-edges, title lettered in ink on spine, a very sound copy. OCLC 457640399 BnF FRBNF31189484 Gay / Lemonnyer Vol.1 442 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.
First published in 1618, and inevitably much reprinted even into the twentieth century, the present edition of this well-known collection of satirical, erotic and scatalogical verse by some of the best poets in that genre is recorded by OCLC in only one copy, that in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. “Un recueil fort remarkable et fort connu, des meilleures poesies licencieuses du temps” [Gay/Lemonnyer]
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.
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