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The Collation

“What manner o’thing is your crocodile?”: October 2021

We’re back with another Crocodile Mystery! Please take a look at this partial image, and give us your best guess as to what this item might be? We’ll be back next week with the answer!

Comments

It’s a French parody of Romeo and Juliet called Roméo et Paquette, published, so far as I can tell, in Dijon in 1772.

stephen orgel — September 28, 2021

Je soupçonne que c’est une piece avec Romeo–et quelqu’une d’autre!

Richard Waugaman — September 28, 2021

It’s available from Amazon !!!

Angela Cockburn — September 28, 2021

This very edition (Verone, 1773) digitized on Google Books.

Zbigniew Paprotny — September 29, 2021