Burned and Banned
l’Escole des filles de Mililot. Réimpression du texte originale sur la contrefaçon hollandaise de 1668.
Bruxelles: aux Depens des dames de la yue des Cailles, [1864].
Price: $250.00
About the item
Engraved frontispiece. [2], iv, 190, [2] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Burned and Banned. 19th-century half cloth and navy blur morocco, spine gilt, marbled endpapers. Gay - Lemonnyer II, 61-62.
Item #258189
Reprint of the famously banned and burned dirty book of 1655, whose author (variously known as Hélot, Millot, or Milliot) was burned in effigy along with all copies of the book, which is of course quite rare. But the book’s very notoriety assured its survival, and numerous reprints have been issued in several languages throiughout Europe from the 17th-century through the 19th. The current reprint reproducd the text of the edition issued at “Fribourg, Roger Bontemps, 1668."
