[?Rose (Toussaint)] Le Secretaire des Courtisans, ou L'Art d'écrire poliment sur toutes sortes du sujets, engraved frontispiece of a secretary at court executing a commission, title in red and black with woodcut ornament, a few leaves soiled or slightly defective at lower outer corner or margin especially H5 & H8 (both with hole to inner margin, H8 with loss of a few letters), attractive contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt in compartments with red roan label, a little rubbed, joints cracked, slight wear to spine ends, 12mo, Amsterdam, George Gallet, 1696.

⁂ Uncommon; Library Hub lists 2 UK copies only (BL and University of Oxford). The author is described as "Secretaire du Cabinet du Roi de France" on the title and Toussaint Rose is cited by Cioranescu as being such. He was Court Secretary to Mazarin and the second occupant of the second seat at the Académie Français. The one hundred and eighty-three letters in the work give a comprehensive view of Court business in the latter part of the 17th century.