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Le Grand Etteilla, ou l'Art de tirer les cartes
Le Grand Etteilla, ou l'Art de tirer les cartes was first published in and remained in print for almost a century. This particular copy of the book is from circa and appears to be the same edition as the one owned by the Wellcome Library which can be viewed here. Unlike the Wellcome Library's copy, it is not missing any pages. At some point, one of the book's previous owners had it re-bound in hardback. The bookbinder included the original, albeit damaged, paperback covers which show an engraving of Etteilla (front) and a list of other works available from the publisher (back).
Although the author is listed as "Julia Orsini," the work is widely attributed to Simon-François Blocquel (), a printer and publisher based in Lille, France. Blocquel was fond of using pseudonyms in his publications, possibly as a buffer against accusations of plagiarism. As publishers of inexpensive chapbooks, Blocquel and his partners Castiaux and Delarue were not above borrowing from the work of other authors, sometimes going so far as to incorporate entire books verbatim. The name "Julia Orsini" is likely a tongue-in-cheek reference to Giulia Orsini (née Farnese), the mistress of Pope Alexander VI.
Very little of the book's content is original
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Thanks for taking a look at the title page, Ross!
If only we could examine the page with a spectroscope; it'd be a hell of a lot easier to see those obscured letters I'll take your flipped image and see what I can do with Photoshop. I might be able to make whatever's there more visible if I play around with the levels of the image histogram.
I also completely forgot to take a look at the binding of the book! I can just make out the letters "Tablette Categori" which come from the new title.
I'm not entirely sure why the title was changed. Could be the original author simply changed his mind. Or perhaps someone was creating the title page on his behalf and screwed up. Or maybe the censors blocked the usage of the original title. I don't know The formal layout of the title page and the page numbers throughout suggest that someone was preparing this for publication. However, I find it strange that there is no mention of a publisher. Usually the phrase "Chez so-and-so" appears at the bottom of the title page. Maybe the author was shopping around for a printer/publisher and figured this information would be added later when they did the typesetting. Or mayb
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