OLIVIER (Jacques).

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OLIVIER (Jacques).
Alphabet of the imperfection and malice of Women. Revised, corrected & increased with a Friant Dessert for the Courtizans & Partisans of the Worldly Woman. Dedicated to the worst in the world. Third edition. Paris, Jean Petit-Pas, 1619. In-12, blond calf, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, interior scroll, gilt edges (Niédrée). Gay-Lemonnyer, t. I, col. 69-70. Partly original edition, increased by the Portraict raccourcy d'une femme mondaine pour le friant dessert de ses Courtizans & Partisanes (70 pages). The title is adorned with a curious copperplate engraving of the evil woman, whom the author describes in vile terms: Harpy wearing a beautiful girl's face, a stinking and rotten belly, hooked hands, infecting all things by their touching, tearing up the meat of the banquetans, the cups hanging, full of deadly milk, sucked by chattons, dressed in feathers, pale with hunger, with feet of chicken. This violent diatribe against women was composed by a certain Jacques Olivier, who would be the pseudonym of the cordelier Alexis Trousset, and appeared for the first time in 1617. From the library of P. Desq (1866, n°848). A few short leaves at the head. Hinges and covers restored.
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