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Les fables de Mr. Houdart de La Motte traduittes en vers françois par le P.S.F. : asinus ad liram et se vend au café du Mont Parnasse ou a la source des liqueurs a la croix du tiroir.

Accession number
PML 65959.4
Creator
Gacon, François, 1667-1725.
Published
[Paris] : [publisher not identified], [1723?]
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Daniel P. Davison.
Notes
Title vignette: a lute with the head of an ass.
Contains a number of La Motte's fables, each followed by a version or a parody, by François Gacon (P.S.F. i.e. Poète sans fard).
Published also under title: Fables de m. de la Motte, de l'Académie française ... Paris, Au café d'Elie, 1723.
Description
136 pages ; 17 x 11 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Desmeure; Daniel P. Davison.
Binding
Stained calf, speckled edges, marbled endpapers.
Classification
Department