Joci by ARNAUD, André. fl. 1594-1608 - 1600

Avignon: J. Bramereau, 1600. Contemporary limp vellum (small lacuna in the front panel), manuscript spine title, four pigskin ties.

First Edition - jokes, sexual pleasantries, facetiae, witty letters, word play, mock praise of drunkenness and cruelty.... A good copy (blank marginal worming in one quire), some lower edges uncut; signature of antiquary comte Alphonse de La Guère (1846-99).
¶Arbour, L'Ère baroque 2943; Brunet I: 486; see Rosenthal's Bibliotheca magica 5160 & Gay's Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l'amour II: 722.