[Rarebooks] FS: Chevrier's scandalous French novel circa 1761

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Chevrier, Francois Antoine. LE COLPORTEUR: HISTOIRE MORALE ET CRITIQUE. A 
Londres (The Hague or Brussels): Jean Nourse. L’an de la Verite (No date, but 
circa 1761-1762). Sm. 8vo. (2),224pp. With the half-title. Title printed in 
red & black, within a decorative border. 19th century calf over marbled 
boards, hinges a bit rubbed. Private library rubber stamp on title.     $450.00 
(trade discount allowed)
A curious & popular novel by the satirist and scandalous writer Chevrier. 
There are at least 6 different undated editions with different pagination and 
other variations. A bibliography by M. Gillet exists of Chevrier, detailing 
the points of the “true” first edition. According to a previous bookseller’
s notes, we have the correct first edition which should end on page 224, 
have a 2-color title page with a border, the double-rule at the bottom of the 
title beginning at the end of “z” in “chez,” and the “an” in the imprint 
is lower case. Copies of this work were censored in France and confiscated 
by the police. See Darnton. CORPUS OF CLANDESTINE LITERATURE IN FRANCE, 
1769-1789, #101. Gay I, 619.

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