Bordelon, Laurent (1653-1730). Le supplément de Tasse rouzi friou titave. Aux Femmes ou aux Maris, pour donner à leurs Femmes. 1713, Pierre Prault, , à l'entrée du Quai de Gévres, du côté du Pont au Change, au Paradis, A Paris. 1 duodecimo volume. xxix, [3], 338 printed pages. Title page printed in red and black, with fleuron vignette. All edges hand 'gravel' marbled; slightly faded. 'Curl' or 'snail' hand marbled endpapers. Circular wood engraved Ex libris on front paste-down endpaper of Dutch Jewish doctor, Bob Luza (1893-1980) , a renowned antiquarian book collector whose library was auctioned in 1981 by A.L.van Gendt. 95 x 160mm. Contemporary full sheepskin binding called a run marble binding, inspired by the striations of rock formations, sometimes also called Prussian marble or Spanish marble. The style flourished in the 1820s and 1830s and this is an early example. Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilded spine fleurons ad gilt titling. Corners worn, edges slightly chipped and front hinge beginning to split. Bordelon, Laurent (1653-1730) was a French abbot, doctor in theology, playwright, polygraph and progressive utopian: "it is claimed that blows with a stick, well applied to the back of a woman, at the same time as one pronounces these words, tasse Rouzi Friou Titave , have, by an admirable property, the power to make her gentle, wise, and faithful to her obligations. But, I have often said to myself, could we not find some expedient less violent and more worthy of conjugal society? For finally the stick is not at all suitable in this regard in the hand of an honest man". OCLC, 13476131. WorldCat locates 16 copies. Barbier, iv, 597. "livre curieux"(Gay). GAY 111,1159; QUÉRARD. France Iittéraire.I, 415; CONLON. Prélude .IV, 16719; LAPORTE. Bib. Clérico-galante. P.28