Potieriana ou Recueil Complet des Calembourgs Jeux de Mots Naïvetés Couplets pointus Rebus Niaiseries Monologues Bètises etc etc de Potier 1814

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Potier, Charles-Gabriel. Potieriana, ou Recueil Complet des Calembourgs, Jeux de Mots, Naïvetés, Couplets pointus, Rebus, Niaiseries, Monologues, Bètises, etc., etc. de Potier, Acteur des Variétés ; a l’usage des personnes qui veulent s’amuser à peu de frais, et briller dans les Sociétés, sans y porter le trouble. Par un habitué de l’Avant-scène. Paris, l’Ecrivain, boulevard des Capucines, No.1 ; Dentu, passage Feydeau ; Delaroque, boulevard des Panoramas, 1814. Hand-colored fold-out frontispiece. 12mo, first edition, [vii; 5-212 pages], 14.3 cm. Bound in marbled boards with a gilt leather label on the spine. A pocket-sized book of word-plays, silly remarks, monologues, puns, nonsensical utterances for the use of people who wanted to shine and entertain in the Parisian society of 1814 by drawing from this humorous compilation made from Charles-Gabriel Potier (1775 – 1838), one of France’s leading comic actors and playwrights of the time. Aude, pp. 86-87.

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