Early Modern Catalogues of Imaginary Books A Scholarly Anthology

Paul J. Smith, Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou — 2019

This bilingual (English-French) anthology of early modern fictitious catalogues presents a multitude of texts, from the genre’s beginnings (Rabelais’s satirical catalogue of the Library of St.-Victor (1532)) to its French and Dutch specimens from around 1700.