Callipædia: or, the Art of getting Beautiful Children. A Poem, in Four Books. Written in Latin by Claudius Quillet. Translated into English by N. Rowe, Esq; &c. To which are added, a few Select Tales.

EROTICA - QUILLET, CLAUDE.

Verlag: Dublin: Printed for Thomas Armitage, 1771.

192pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece. Bound with another work (for which see below) in worn contemporary calf, gilt spine label "Pamphlet[s]"; joints split, but firm on the sewing cords. Apparently the only edition to contain the erotic "few select tales," for which see below. The title-poem was first printed in English in a translation by William Oldisworth in 1710, and Rowe s translation followed in 1712. Both versions were several times reprinted, but here the Dublin publisher decided to add an extra sheet, with a little something extra in the form of "I. Antony s Tale; Or, the Boarding-School Tale. II. Miss in her Teens; Captain Shadow s Tale. III. P**ty s Tale; Or, the Chavalier [sic.] Nun." The first of these begins: Lucy was not like other lasses, From twelve her breasts swell d in a trice, First they were like two cupping-glasses, Then like two peaches made of ice. . . . And the last, taken without acknowledgment from Hall-Stevenson s Crazy Tales, features "a Nun as amorous as fair" visiting a young monk in his chapel, and concludes: Father, says she, pulling him down, I ve a great mind to turn gallant, And give your Rev rence a green gown. . . For all your stiffness and your pride, With whip and spur I ll make you run: To which the humble Monk reply d, Spouse of the Lord, thy will be done. . . . ESTC locates copies at Belfast Central and British Library, to which OCLC adds one at McGill. The second work bound at the end of the volume is Richard Brathwait s Drunken Barnaby s Four Journeys to the North of England. In Latin and English Verse. Dublin: Printed for William Williamson, 1762. 137, [7]pp., 12mo. Four locations in ESTC, OCLC, and COPAC; the first edition was published in 1638. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 12418

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Titel: Callipædia: or, the Art of getting Beautiful...
Verlag: Dublin: Printed for Thomas Armitage, 1771.
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good