Le cheualier hipocondriaque
By: par le Sr. du Verdier
Publisher: Chez la vefue Mathieu Guillemot, au Palais. Et Mathieu Guillemot, ruë S. Iacques
Published: 1632
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 709
Other titles: Chevalier hipocondriaque
Notes: Signatures: ã⁷ A-2X⁸ Y⁷.

Vignette on t.p.

[1] blank leaf, [13], [1 blank], 709, [8], [1 blank] pages, [1] blank leaf; 17 cm, 8°. Signatures: ã⁷ A-2X⁸ Y⁷. Burlesque novel, directly inspired by the appearance in France of Cervantes' Don Quixote in 1614-1618. Losada-Goy (#135) comments on the remarkable closeness of Du Verdier's "Hypochondriac Knight" to the Knight of La Mancha-- at times approaching "plagiary". The author, after producing a genuine chivalrous novel in 1626 (Le Roman des Romans ou la Conclusion de l'Amadis), followed the emerging fashion for satirizing those same ideals with the present work. The hero, Don Clarazel de Gontaranos, becomes intoxicated with visions of chivalry after reading the tales of Amadis de Gaule. Contemp. calf, gilt spine title and fleurons. Edges spread in red. Sig. of Monsieur Franc{0327}ois Noe{0308}l Geny on 1st blank. Some worming no 1st pages. Last pastedown: ms. notes with price account "109 folliet a 3 denie{0301}es la piesse" [sic].