Boileau - narcejac

1701 · 505971 — Francois vander Plaats 1701. First Edition. Leather. VERY GOOD. First French Edition translated from the Latin. 16 319 11 pp. 12mo 4x6.5' contemporary calf with raised bands over 6 ornately tooled panels gilt rolled board edges text edges speckled in red. Title page in red and black. A neat leather repair to the top of spine and front board flushly mated over a 2' gash lashing with a small piece of the top panel retained; small chip to tail edge original bands both present; light rubbing to extremities some typical foxing shallow fore edge stain between pp. 200-250 contemporary owner's inscription to both endpapers bookseller's ticket to FFEP tipping in printed catalog description; otherwise a neat copy with tight square binding. Boileau was a French Roman Catholic theologian born in Paris 1635. In 1662 he took his degree as doctor of theology was in 1671 dean and grand-vicar at Sens in 1694 canon at Sainte Chapelle and later dean of the Sorbonne. McClintock & Strong. Boileau's History of Flagellation was first printed in Latin the year prior 1700. It traces the practice of self-flagellation in ascetic political and erotic applications with references to scripture church fathers councils as well as secular literature differentiating what he regards as the proper from the perverse use of the practice. Francois vander Plaats unknown