LE ROUX, Philibert Joseph - Dictionnaire comique, satyrique, critique, burlesque, libre et proverbial. Avec une explication très-fidele de toutes les maniéres de parler burlesques, comiques, libres, satyriques, critiques & proverbiales, qui peuvent se rencontrer dans les meilleurs auteurs, tant anciens que modernes. Le tout pour faciliter aux étrangers, & aux françois mêmes, l'intelligence de toutes sortes de livres. Nouvelle édition, revue & corrigée. Tome premier [-second[.

Lion: chez les Héritiers de Beringos fratres, 1752. 8vo. 2 vols in 1. Vol.1: xiv, [2], 328p. Vol. 2: [2], 292p. Contemporary mottled calf; gold-tooled spine; red-edged leaves; marbled endpapers. Slight wear at joints, corners, and at head and foot of spine.***** 'Un ouvrage écrit en assez mauvais style, mais curieux, qui contient une nomenclature du bas langage et a été souvent réédité.' Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, vol.10, p.397. W. Bonser & T.A. Stephens, Proverb literature: a bibliography, no.1034, draw attention to the work's usefulness in the identification of obscure proverbs.

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