Histoire nouvelle et divertissante du Bon Homme Misere
Subtitle: Dans laquelle on verra ce que c'est que la Misere, où elle a pris son origine; comme elle a trompé la Mort, & quand elle finira dans le Monde
By: Par le Sieur de la Riviere.
Publisher: Chez J. Antoine Garnier, Imprimeur-Libraire, rue du Temple
Published: 1719
Place of publication: A Troyes
Language: fre
Number of pages: 23
Other titles: L'Origine de Misere.
Notes: 'Approbation' and 'Permission' on verso of final page, dated respectively: 'A Paris, le premier Juillet 1719' and 'le 7 Juillet 1719'.

Nisard, who had evidently not seen an edition of this work with the author named on the title-page, cites an undated 12mo edition and one of 1851, with an additional part running to 35 pages; he describes the work as 'ni un sermon, quoique débité par un curé, ni une parodie de sermon, mais qui appartient plutôt à la légende'; of the duodecimo version he writes: 'Il ne m'est possible d'indiquer la date précise de ce curieux petit livre'; the 12mo copy he has seen ends with the pseudonymous attribution: 'par M. Court d'argent' and has 11 pages; the Percy copy is duodecimo in 8 and 4, but has 11 pages; the date has been conjectured from the '1719' 'Approbation'.

Running title: 'L'Origine de Misere'.

Nisard 1, 484, citing different and later editions.

B.L. and NUC catalogues cite the 1809 edition and enter under title, the author's name not appearing on the title-page; I have not found it listed among the works of Charles Dufresny, sieur de La Rivière, but the Percy title-page certainly bears his title[MK, cataloguer].