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Curiosa 1947. With etched illustrations.
At the expense of a bibliophile and his friends.
Anonymous. Illustrator Jean Traynier
Text circa 1450. With slipcase. 30 cm x 21 cm, thickness 4.6 cm. Fine condition.
N°76 of an edition strictly limited to 150 copies printed on large-format Lana vellum. This work is one of 45 copies numbered from 56 to 100. 146 pages, leaves, green muted cover, muted slipcase decorated with a sober heart stylized in red. 12 color etchings in the text, three quarter pages, plus one full-page frontispiece off-text and multiple woodcut illustrations, plus seven endpapers in red showing the breakdown of typographical motifs.
Les Quinze Joies de mariage (The Fifteen Joys of Marriage) is a French satirical prose text published anonymously in the mid-15th century, which presents a picture of marital quarrels and deceit: misogynistic satire goes hand in hand with an analysis of the blindness of spouses placed in concrete, everyday situations.
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