- [PIRON (Alexis)]. The Origin of Fleas. London, s.n., 1749, in-16, title, and 36 pp. printed in italics, a vignette on the title and a vignette on the head, aubergine half-chagrin, spine ribbed with gilt fillets, red edges. Bound in the 19th century (spine unstained, but a good copy).                                                       First edition of this facetious verse, whose author is in fact uncertain (we follow Cioranescu's attribution): Piron, Moncrif or Grécourt have been proposed without any certainty.                                    Cioranescu, XVIII, 50 370.
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- [PIRON (Alexis)]. The Origin of Fleas. London, s.n., 1749, in-16, title, and 36 pp. printed in italics, a vignette on the title and a vignette on the head, aubergine half-chagrin, spine ribbed with gilt fillets, red edges. Bound in the 19th century (spine unstained, but a good copy). First edition of this facetious verse, whose author is in fact uncertain (we follow Cioranescu's attribution): Piron, Moncrif or Grécourt have been proposed without any certainty. Cioranescu, XVIII, 50 370.

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- [PIRON (Alexis)]. The Origin of Fleas. London, s.n., 1749, in-16, title, and 36 pp. printed in italics, a vignette on the title and a vignette on the head, aubergine half-chagrin, spine ribbed with gilt fillets, red edges. Bound in the 19th century (spine unstained, but a good copy). First edition of this facetious verse, whose author is in fact uncertain (we follow Cioranescu's attribution): Piron, Moncrif or Grécourt have been proposed without any certainty. Cioranescu, XVIII, 50 370.
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