The Untitled Leaf Containing all the productions of Spirit, - Lot 415

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The Untitled Leaf Containing all the productions of Spirit, - Lot 415
The Untitled Leaf Containing all the productions of Spirit, the Fugitive Pieces of Poetry, the Good Words, the Decent Anecdotes; the most interesting discoveries in Medicine, Surgery, Botany, Agriculture, & in the Arts, either Liberal or Mechanical; the Brilliant Holidays, & above all the Fads, &c. In Amsterdam, at the Associated Booksellers, 1777. 181 issues bound in 1 vol. small in-4 with continuous pagination, cardboard, title piece in morocco (binding of the period). Head of collection from n°1 of Saturday 1st February 1777 to n°181 of Thursday 31st July 1777, 181 issues. The series continued until n°334 of December 31, 1777. Daily newspaper whose publisher explains the strange name he had given it as follows: "According to the innumerable crowd of newspapers and periodicals that cover the surface of Europe, one is not a little embarrassed to find, for a sheet to be born, a title whose difference with the others is marked; it is for this reason that we do not give any to ours". "This newspaper, published in the Principality of Liège, was banned by Prince François Charles d Verbruck, for unknown reasons" (M. Fabre). 16 numbered engraved figures (hairstyle models). Hatin, 76; Sgard, 475.
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