TWO UNRECORDED PARISIAN EXAMPLES OF COLPORTAGE, WITH A COLORED WOODCUT FRONTISPIECE OF ‘THE AMOROUS BURGLAR’. 12mo. [13.7 x 8 cm]. 108 pp & 108 pp. Bound together in contemporary quarter calf with gilt title and ornaments on spine. Excellent copies of both items, clean and fresh. Well-preserved, unrecorded pair of cheaply-printed humorous tales probably sold by colporteurs (street-hawkers). Such literature by nature survives poorly, and the present titles are wholly unrecorded in any French institutional library including the BnF, per the Catalogue Collectif de France (CCFr). Both compendia are of a similar nature, relating rather bawdy tales of eg a groom who sleeps with two sisters on his wedding night; a valet seduced by his mistress; various bad behavior by members of the clergy; a young widow’s advice to her second husband; and so on. The hand-colored frontispiece likely belongs to the second title although it is bound before the first. We note that OCLC records different editions of both titles (with a full Lille imprint only) at Yale; however, neither title is recorded in any French library as noted above.