La Goualana, ou Collection Inmcoplette des Oeuvres Prototypes D'un Habitant de la ville de Cena [Caen], departemant du Salvocad [Calvados]; Par une Societe d'Oisifs. Premiere et Derniere Edition
by LA GOUALANA
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
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About This Item
[Caen] De l'Imrpimerie de Carnaval Aine, [c 1830]. Small 12mo (in 6s), 155 x 103 mms., pp. vii [viii blank] [9] - 22 [23 and 24 blank], mid 19th century half calf, marbled boards, brown morocco label; previous bookseller's ticket on front past-down end-paper, blind stamp of "Le Viaconte G l'Onor" [sic] on recto of front free end-paper. The French bookseller's catalogue description pasted to the front paste-down end-paper tell us that this facetious pamphlet derives from the name of La Gouelle, the maitre d'hotel in Caen, who died in 1828, and whose contemporaries said of him, "meritait entierement la reputation de naive et pretentieuse recherche d'elocution qu'on lui prete dans cet opuscule." I think we've all encountered maitre d's like that, not only in France, but England, the United States, Germany, etc; and a phenomenon not necessarily found in the chief waiter in a hotel. A note in pencil on the recto of the front free end-paper attribute the work to a lawyer in Caen. The only copy that I could find is in the Universite Caen Normandie.
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- Bookseller
- John Price Antiquarian Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9758
- Title
- La Goualana, ou Collection Inmcoplette des Oeuvres Prototypes D'un Habitant de la ville de Cena [Caen], departemant du Salvocad [Calvados]; Par une Societe d'Oisifs. Premiere et Derniere Edition
- Author
- LA GOUALANA
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- [Caen] De l'Imrpimerie de Carnaval Aine, [c 1830]
- Keywords
- humour French literature
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- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- A.N.
- The book is pristine and free of any defects, in the same condition as ...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...