12mo. Two volumes bound as one. [2], iv, 140; [4], 156pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece, all edges red. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, later bookplate of Mr. Beaupré to FEP, scattered spotting.

The first two-volume edition of a collection of facetious essays attributed to prominent eighteenth-century Troyens - including historian and travel writer Pierre-Jean Grosley (1715-1785) - which, in a burlesque of contemporary academic publications, reflect on ridiculous and puerile subjects, notably the scatological discourse 'Dissertation sur un ancien usage', and the satirical 'Dissertation sur l'usage de battre sa Maitresse' ('Dissertation on the practice of beating one’s Mistress'). The first volume only was published, in octavo format, in 1744.