Title:
L'art de désopiler la rate : sive de modo C ... prudenter, en prenant chaque feuillet pour se T ... le D ..., entremêlé de quelques bonnes choses [fore-edge painting]
Creator:
Panckoucke, A. J.(André Joseph), 1700-1753, author
Creator:
Manoury, Jacques, publisher
Type:
image
Publisher:
A Venise [Caen] : Chez Antonio Pasquinetti.
Date:
1775
Language:
fre
Subject:
Fore-edge painting
Description:
Fore-edge painting depicts Venice, Italy's Church of Santa Maria della Salute, Dogana, gondolas in foreground.
Description:
Photographed by Mitro Hood, 2017-2018
Format:
image/tiff
Relation:
Marion and Henry J. Knott Collection of Fore-Edge Paintings
Identifier:
6121886
Identifier:
FEP 090
Rights:
Loyola Notre Dame Library. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Description:
Title vignette, head pieces, small ornamental dividers between text sections.
Description:
"L'art de désoppiler la rate" is an anonymous medley of satirical material. The original work, dated "L'an des folies 175884", was published in 1754 and comprises 480 pages. A 430-page reprint with apparently minor changes, dated "L'an des folies 175886", was published in 1756. A new work with the same title, dated "L'an des folies 175887", was published in 1757, and comprises 232 pages; it is a distinct work from the 1754 publication, though similar in subject matter; it carries no volume or part designation, but Barbier and Gay both treat it as being the second part of a two-part work (the 1754 publication being treated as the first part). Gay notes that it is rare to find the work complete with the second part. A new edition ("nouvelle édition, revue et augmentée") was subsequently published under the differently-spelled title "L'art de désopiler la rate"; it is dated 178873 (1773) and consists of two volumes of 360 pages each. Another printing of this two-volume edition, dated 178875, was published in 1775; it is set in different type but its contents appear identical. Gay and La lettre clandestine concur that the 1773 edition differs substantially from the original publication, with some of the original material deleted and some new material added. La lettre clandestine makes no reference to the 1757 volume: it describes the 480-page 1754 volume as the first edition of the work, the 430-page 1756 reprint volume as the second edition, and the 1773 publication as the third edition. All three sources attribute the work to André Joseph Panckoucke (1700-1753), as does Cioranescu.
Description:
Barbier, Ouvrages anonymes, volume 1, page 287
Description:
Gay, Jules. Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l'amour (1894-1900), volume 1, column 280
Description:
La lettre clandestine, number 2 (1993), pages 168-171
Description:
Cioranescu, Alexandre. Bibliographie de la littérature française du dix-huitième siècle (1969), volume 2, no. 48943
Subject:
French wit and humor
