Dictionnaire des proverbes françois, et des façons de parler comiques, burlesques et familieres, &c. Avec l'explication, et les étymologies les plus avérées. P.J.P.D.L.N.D.L.E.F.

PANCKOUCKE, André-Joseph.

Published by Paris: chez Savoye, 1758., 1758

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12mo. [4], vi, [4], 488p. Paper flaw on leaf V1 affecting 3 letters. Contemporary mottled sheep, wear at lower section of front joint; gold tooled spine; sprinkled red-edged leaves. A member of a distinguished family of 18th and 19th-century publishers, originally of Bruges and later of Lille, Panckoucke wrote burlesque poems, which were sometimes attacks on Voltaire, and compiled various manuals and dictionaries, notably this one on proverbs. First published in shorter form some ten years earlier, this 1758 edition is the most complete. W. Bonser & T.A. Stephens, Proverb literature: a bibliography, no.1077. Seller Inventory # 6/073

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Title: Dictionnaire des proverbes françois, et des ...

Publisher: Paris: chez Savoye, 1758.

Publication Date: 1758

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good