[GRÉCOURT, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Willart de]

Philotanus. Poem by M. l'abbé *** Paris, Louis Antoine Le Gond, 1720 VIOLENT SATIRE IN VERSE AGAINST THE JESUITS. copy by jules janin, in a fine 19th century binding ORIGINAL EDITION In-8 (161 x 96 mm). Copper-engraved vignette on the title page, a woodcut initial COLLATION : A-C8 : 48 pp. CONTENTS: A1r: title, A2r: text ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATION : 2 woodcuts, one placed in the frontispiece, the other reproducing the scene of the vignette on the title page BINDING OF THE XIXth CENTURY. Long red morocco spine decorated with gilt, vertical titling, combed paper boards, red edges PROVENANCE: Jules Janin (note in ink signed "C.-J." on the verso of the first endpaper; not in the catalog of his sale in 1877) Bottom of the first two leaves shortened, very light stain on the first cover BIBLIOGRAPHY: not in Brunet -- Tchemerzine, III, p. 470