Fluste de Robin.

La Flvste de Robin, En Laqvelle Les Chansons de Chasque mestier s’egayent.

Troyes, P. Piot c. 1620.

8vo (160 x 102 mm.). 31p.

Blind-ruled Jansenist red morocco (Capé; scuff on the rear panel), gilt-lettered title, all edges gilt, silk marker.

“EROTIC OR PORNOGRAPHIC, as you wish, this is surely the most inventive piece of amusing curiosa…metaphorical fireworks…describe the flute of Robin…the precious instrument with which Robin passes as a virtuoso with the ladies” (Mercier, tr.). Four antiquarian editions of this chapbook triumph of comparative rhetoric survive, all in a handful of examples and all issued between 1619 and about 1622. Loss of a dozen letters in the upper right corner of the final verso (sense not affected).
¶Mercier, Le Tombeau de la mélancolie, littérature et facétie sous Louis XIII 200-3 & no. 563; Brunet II: 1314 “extremely indecent…of great rarity” (tr.); Gay, Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l’amour II: 388 “very licentious” (tr.); Répertoire bibliographique des livres imprimés en France au XVII^e siècle III: 34,169; RISM, Écrits concernant la musique II: 937[!].

Item #11515

Price: $12,500.00