Les Nouvelles drolatiques

Paris & Bruxelles: Charles Gilliet, 1880. First printing. Paperback. Good/good. 8 small booklets In paperback, covers with d/j's. Each full volume has an etching in the frontispiece. A small amount of foxing here and there but nothing really to indicate that these volumes are 130 years old. Text is in French Volume I: 62 pages, the DELIGHTS of the Holy Spirit and the bed warmer. THE CHALICE of MADAME DE TRIGONEC –- Les délices de l'Esprit-Saint et la bassinoire ; Le calice de Madame de Trigonec volume II: 67 pages, a marriage of CONSTANTINOPLE. A POINT...Tapestry –Un mariage à Constantinople ; Un point. de tapisserie. volume III: 73 pages, a Seraglio for sale. THE PENANCE of the parish priest of TILLY – - Un sérail à vendre ; La pénitence du curé de Tilly.Volume IV: 66 pages, the CHASTE SUZANNE. A white mass –- La chaste Suzanne ; Une messe blanche. volume V: 82 pages, the amends. THE TELPEHONE- L'amende honorable ; Le téléphone. volume VI: 81 pages, the curator. THE necessary and the SUPERFLUOUSLe curateur ; Le nécessaire et le superflu volume VII: 63 pages, the nurse dry by proxy - - La nourrice sèche ; Par procuration Volume IX: 77 pages, the phonograph of the Lord. RELIEVED OF HIS VOW. This poor gentleman DUCLAMEL – Le phonographe du Seigneur ; Relevée de son voeu ; Ce pauvre Monsieur Duclamel( 2 volumes missing from this set V8 & 10)