Monsieur Kaniferstane. (Or, I Do Not Understand You). [BURGES (Sir James Bland)].
£600.00
Monsieur Kaniferstane. (Or, I Do Not Understand You). An Original Tale.
Folio broadside, etching with letterpress. Sheet size 410 x 223 mm. Trimmed within plate on three sides.
London: published by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, 4th October, 1796
Not in BM Satires. ESTC locates copies at the British Library, Oxford (lacking imprint?) and Princeton (lacking imprint?).
The tale of a French marquis who mistakes a Dutchman saying "Ik kan niet Verstaan" ("I do not understand") for the man's name.
"Once upon a time a little French Marquis / for travel felt a mighty inclination; / To shew himself, and foreign parts to see, / He undertook a bold peregrination".
Stock no. ebc7765