Discours facetieux et tres-recreatifs, pour oster des esprits d'vn chacun, tout ennuy & inquietude
Subtitle: augmenté de plusieurs prologues drolatiques non encore veuz
Publisher: Chez Iean Millot, sur les degrez de la grand' salle du Palais
Published: 1609
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 168
Subjects: Anecdotes; Early works to 1800; French wit and humor
Other titles: Discovrs facetievx et tres-recreatifs, pour oster des esprits d'vn chacun, tout ennuy & inquietude; Discours facecieux; Prologues facecieux; Prologues non tant superlifiques que drolatiques.
Notes: By Deslauriers, who is more commonly known by his nickname, Bruscambille. Cf. Cioranescu.

The privilege, granted to Jean Saulnier, is dated 5 July 1608.

Signatures: ã⁴ A-G¹², ²A² B-I⁸·⁴ K⁶.

Many errors in paging.

The Prologues non tant superlifiques que drolatiques, nouuellement mis en veuë ([4], 108 p. at end) has separate title page with woodcut printer's device.

Contains 26 "histoires" and 16 "prologues". An expanded ed. of the Prologues, containing 10 pieces from the 1609 ed. and 23 new ones, was published: Paris, Millot, 1610.

Cioranescu, A. 17. s., 16902 (Prologues)

Purchase; Museion; 22 August 2002; 2002-507; $17,500 (S.A.E. Morse fd.).

French inscription dated 1626 on p. 168; old signature on front pastedown: De (Sericourt?); blue oval eagle stamp on title page of the Prologues.

Imperfect: marginal repairs, with slight text loss.

Bound in contemporary limp vellum (stained); the Prologues bound preceding the Discours; in wood case with lizard (?) onlays and sliding fore-edge panel; in protective case, 15 cm.