L'art de Plumer la Poule sans Crier -
Cologne, TurcComplete and in fine condition, 12mo, (. Some headers cropped but else in very fine condition with title page laid down. Bound in full period polished calf with gilt fleurons on front and rear boards. Later marbled endpapers. Ex libris Roger Sherman with his bookplate on the front paste down. Also, a short auction notice for this volume on the front endpaper. Published with the same title as L'art de Plumer, this work is not a French history but rather a collection of 21 biographies of "tarts" and their "customers" Comes with a used rubber but for an extra $20 I'll not include it.Listed first editions are recorded as having 213 pages or twenty pages fewer than this copy. Other copies are also illustrated in various states, i.e frontis, folding,etc. It might be this longer edition was a primate "page proof", hence length difference and no illustrations. (brevity being the soul of smut if not the bed) Read More