For
your consideration:
For
your consideration:
Anti-Catholic
Satire with
50 Etched
Plates
Religiously
Inflammatory
Cartoon 
GOES
BACK 
[Dusart,
Cornelius, artist]. Renversement
de la morale chretienne par les desordres du monachisme. Enrichi de figures....
Omstootinge der christelyke zeden.... Hollande [Amsterdam?]: Chez les marchands
libraires et imagers, [1740–60?]. 4to (22.2 cm, 8.75"). Fold-out frontis.,
[2] ff., 20, 111, [1 (blank)] pp.; 50 plts. 
To
add to the book’s interest, it is something of a bibliographical conundrum:
The exact number of editions and their dating is difficult to determine, as
is the date of the first edition (some cataloguers speculate that it was about
1676), for none of them are dated, no doubt to avoid the censor. Apparently
the work first appeared in the late 17th century, and was printed into the 18th
and perhaps the 19th. The short title catalogue for the Netherlands lists only
two editions: The signature composition and plate count of one match this copy,
and the cataloguer of the Royal Library speculates that this edition may have
been printed in Switzerland.
This work was first published with 25 plates, preceded by full descriptions of each in French and Dutch. An additional 25 plates (present, with their descriptions, in this copy) were later added, with short verse descriptions given in French only. None of the plates are signed, though some cataloguers speculate they are by Corneille Dusart and the frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe.
• 20th-century green marbled paper over boards; spine with brown paper label, gilt-lettered. Moderately rubbed, corners bumped, spine label chipped — yet a volume with good antiquarian presence. All edges speckled red. Generally clean with but a few spots of light foxing.
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