LA CHAPELLE, Jean Baptiste de (ca. 1710–92). Le Ventriloque, Our L’Engastrimythe…. London, De l’Etanville and Paris: Widow Duchesne, 1772. Two volumes continuously paginated, full mottled calf, well-worn spine tooled gilt with rubbed roan spine label. Title ornaments, head-pieces and typographic ornaments. 12mo. Rounded corners. Rebacked. Text generally clean and bright but marginally wormed (not affecting any text – margins wide); very good. See Fechner pp. 310. Widely regarded as the first published work on ventriloquism, the books include stories of its use and descriptions of “belly talk” technique.
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