A history of the ridiculous extravagancies of Monsieur Oufle / occasioned by his reading books treating of magick, the black art, dæmoniacks, conjurers, of elves, fairies, of dreams, the philosopher's-stone, judicial astrology, with notes containing a multitude of quotations out of those books, which have either caused such extravagant imaginations, or may serve to cure them. Written originally in French, by the Abbot B-----, and now tr. into English.
A 1711 London satire printed for J. Morphew, translated from Laurent Bordelon's French original, mocking a reader whose head is filled with tales of magic, fairies, dreams and astrology, with notes that quote those books. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a decorated initial letter, a foliate headpiece with a vase, and a fleuron-style capital, all in dense black-and-cream line work that suggests early eighteenth-century letterpress decoration a designer could borrow for borders, initials and dividers.
