[Rarebooks] FS: Du Tilliot's history of the "Feast of Fools." Geneva: 1751

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Du Tilliot, Jean-Baptiste Lucotte. MEMOIRES POUR SERVIR A L'HISTOIRE DE LA FETE DES FOUX Qui Se Faisont Autrefois dans Plusieurs Eglises. Lausanne & Geneve: No pub. 1751. Sm. 8vo. (2),x,184pp. With 12 engraved plates, mostly showing the costumes worn in the festival, and procession.  Full cont. mottled calf, red morocco label on gilt-decorated spine, front joint cracked, else good.	$500.00 (trade discount allowed)
The Feast of Fools was a celebration marked by much license and buffoonery, which in many part of Europe, and particularly in France, during the later middle ages took place every year on or about the feast of the Circumcision (Jan. 1st). Brunet 22368. Cohen 341.


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