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DU TILLIOT, Jean-Baptiste Lucotte

Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la fête des foux, qui se faisoit autrefois dans plusieurs églises
Lausanne - Genève
Marc-Michel Bousquet & cie
1741
€240 - €360

In-4°, vi + 112 pp, vignette de titre, orné de 12 planches gravées hors-texte (complet). Titre en rouge et en noir. Édition originale. Papier également jauni. Belle reliure en plein veau, tranches rouges, gardes marbrées, coiffe sup. usée, fleurons dorés sur le dos

"Réf. Brunet V, 860; Cohen-De Ricci 339; Graesse VI, p.160. Ex libris héraldique De Valenzi. Tilliot's history of the Festival of Fools, a mock religious festival with a long tradition of celebration. Traced back to the pagan Saturnalia of ancient Rome, the revelry and buffoonery of the Festival of Fools was later performed during the Middle Ages on Epiphany (January 6)"

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