Le calembourg en action
Subtitle: anecdote tirée des annales secrètes des Chevalieres de l'Opera
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1789
Place of publication: Lampsaque
Language: fre
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Erotic literature
Work titles: Sept et le va à l'as de pique
Notes: Authorship from Barbier.

First published in 1784 under title: Sept et le va à l'as de pique, ou, Le ponte en bonne fortune

Imprint is false.

Signatures: A⁶ (-A1, blank?) B-F⁶ G⁸.

Woodcut title vignette.

Cf. Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, volume 4, column 472

Gay, J., Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l'amour, 1871, volume 2, 90

Weller, Dictionnaire des ouvrages français portant de fausses indications, Hildesheim, 1970, volume 2, p. 239

Contemporary or slightly later annotations on front free endpaper and fly-leaf, with a sketch of a hanging man; bookplate: Bibliotheque de Marly, Ex libris Victorien Sardou.

Bound in contempoary mottled calf, with marbled endpapers; spine gilt, with 2 black lettering-pieces, 1 with "Calenbourg" and "A S" at foot of spine; covers have gilt border.