Histoire d'un géant, écrite par un nain

Rare first edition published anonymously.
With a frontispiece "Je n'ai jamais vu un aussi petit homme" engraved by Benoist after Claude-Louis Desrais.
Half brown calf binding, smooth spine slightly sunned and ruled in gilt, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns in caillouté paper, contemporary binding.
A rare copy of this satyrical and erotic novel about the love adventures of a dwarf and a giant. Despite their rivalry, the dwarf remedies the giant's impotence by hiding in his breeches, and together they take revenge on a cruel marquise.
We have found only four copies in public collections (National Library of France, British Library, Library of Château d'Oron, Switzerland, and National Library of Hungary).
Not included in the Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes.