Author: Desforges, Pierre; Louis de Boissy
Title: Memoires Anecdotes Pour Servir à L'Histoire Du M. Duliz, Fameux Juif Portugais à la Haye. Et la Suite de Ses Avantures, Après la Catastrophe de Celle de Mademoiselle Pelissier, Actrice de L'Opera de Paris. (Bound with] le Triomphe de L'Intérêt, Comédie. First Edition
Description: Londres: (Amsterdam?) Samuel Harding , 1739. 12mo. 10.6 x 17cm. New brown half goatskin and marbled boards by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov.[ 2], 188pp.. Old annotations on final free end paper; some foxing. A good, untrimmed copy. Rare first edition of a French comical work by the comedian Desforges of whom not much is known. It tells the story of a rich Jew, originally from England, M. Duliz, who now lives in Holland. His father married him off to a rich girl with whom he is not satisfied. And that is why he courts an actress from the opera; a source for many hilarious scenes. The story is followed (from p. 131 onwards) by a comedy by Louis de Boissy Le triomphe de l'intérêt, comédie.(1694-1758), which was first published in Pairs in 1734. Barbier III, 181; cf. Cioranescu 23406 and 12358.I.OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1040714081( Boissy ) and OCLC Number 558241285 (Desforges,). .

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