La Constitution en Vaudevilles, suivie des Droits de L'Homme, de la Femme, & de plusieurs autres vaudevilles constitutionnels.
first edition
1792 · Paris
by MARCHANT, M.
Paris: Les Libraires Royalists, 1792. Book. 32mo, full straight grained morocco. Pp. 158, uncut. Stipple engraved frontispiece. A fine copy, with the original paste-paper wrappers bound in. First edition of a famous parody of the French constitution, with each article being the subject of a satirical ballad. The handsome frontispiece shows a gentleman amusing himself with a yo-yo. Grand-Carteret 1053, which notes that the volume was reprinted with an historical notice in 1882.. (Inventory #: 1259)