DE GUERLE - AKERLIO (Docteur) Lot n° 50

Eloge des perruques, enriched with notes richer than the text Paris, Maradan, Imprimerie de Crapelet, an VII (1799) . In-12. X-214pp.-1f. Half blond basane, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets. Green morocco title label (19th c. binding). First edition. Jean-Marie de Guerle (1766-1824), originally from an Irish family, was born in Issoudun under the pseudonym of Akerlio. His career as a prosecutor was halted by the Revolution, and he became a professor of grammar and then literature. He distinguished himself in the literary world by translating Latin authors and producing plays, some of them amusing or erotic. His Eloge des perruques is without doubt the work that has best survived him, full of fantasy, quotations and notes and great erudition on the subject; Cioranescu (22370) says: "It's a debauchery of erudition in the style of Erasmus's Praise of Folly". (Colas 818).