"Caractères tirés de l'Écriture Sainte et appliqués aux moeurs de ce siècle".

8vo: [4]-210 pp. (dampstaining to upper corners in begin., ink staining to top margin).

Contemp. calf, gilt orn. spine with raised bands, red edges (head missing, lack of leather to front cover, stained, corners dulled).

18th-century copy of a work on religious morals with same title, first published in Paris by L. Guérin in 1698 (12mo, 463 pp.). The chapters concern: "L'Autorité des Maris rétablie", "Le Mariage mal assorti pour la condition", "Le Mari brutal & l'honnete Femme", "La Penitence des femmes", "L'Iphigenie Chrétienne", "Des Amitiés dangereuses & sensuelles", etc. The chapter titles are all conform to the printed text, except one: the printed title "L'ambition et l'avarice malheureuses en mariage" is "L'Ambition & l'Avarice dangereuses en mariage" in this ms. copy.
Prov. "Revoil curé" (ms. ownership entry). - "Rantonnet pretre 1823" (id.). - Ms. entries to lower margins of Index hidden by a later start of sentence. - [Georges Petit].