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Title: A Charitable Remonstrance Addressed to the Wives and Maidens of France, Touching Their Dissolute Adornments, Together with Two Curious Elegies, Collectanea Adamantea XXI. I.
Description: Privately Printed, 1887. Soft Cover. Originally printed in Paris in 1585.56 pages in fragile sewn, paper-vellum wrapper, most of spine chipped away. One of 275 small-paper copies; were also issued] [balance of title] together with two curious elegies. -- Titles of the elegies: To the husband of the woman with the frizzled hair, p. [34]-35; France complaining of the lewdness of her maidens, p. [36]-37. -- Notes by William Rooke, p. [38]-56. -- Paper watermarked: J Whitman 1887. Internally fresh and clean without marks or signatures; the thin paper vellum however is failing at the spine and there is a deficient area on the rear cover. No loss of text. . Good +

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Price: GBP 16.00 = appr. US$ 22.85 Seller: Creaking Shelves Books
- Book number: 005494