Robert ‎Triphook - ‎Marottes à vendre ou Triboulet tabletier - 1812

First edition of this extremely rare facetious collection, containing 353 pieces in verse and prose gathered here and there from various works. — "This collection contains excerpts from different rare works" (Brunet, III, 1466).

French burlesque texts published for the English market by Robert Triphook. The Triphook publisher is particularly known for its editions of unusual texts of this kind (a 'marotte' is a jester's hat with bells). The texts offered are witty tales featuring various kings of the ancien régime (particularly Henri IV), counts and presidents, doctors and lawyers...

Bound in a beautiful full morocco binding with long-grain cherry leather, with a gilded roulette frame around the covers, a spine decorated with raised bands adorned with fillets forming compartments and small tools, the title in gilt letters, and marbled edges.

Condition: Leather rubbed on the mors, cuts, headbands, and corners. Slightly cracked mors. Discreet traces on the covers. Paper slightly yellowed with some scattered foxing, without severity. Good example, quite rare.


Triphook (Robert)

Marottes for sale or Triboulet tabletier, including the Gibecière, which, after being lost for several centuries, has finally happily reached us, equipped with a rare assemblage of rattles, charms, trinkets, and baubles of all kinds; of uncommon craftsmanship, possessing a thousand properties and virtues, no less useful and sought after than delightful and difficult to find.

At Parnasse burlesque, from the workshop of the Banque du Bel Esprit, at the Sign of Facetiousness (London, Harding and Wright, for R. Triphook), the first year of the new era (1812).

In-12 (15 x 9 cm); 2 ff. 292 pp.

Subject: Rare burlesque collection Faceties by Triphook, 1812.