(No place nor printer), 1688. 12mo. In contemorary coloured wrappers with leather spine. Title-page with underlinings i red. Last 50 pp. with loss of paper in upper outer margin, not affecting text, otherwise nice and clean. (4), 296 pp.
First French translation of Johnson‘s ""Julian the Apostate"". Samuel Johnson, the rector of Corringham, is famous for the present work which compares Julian the Apostate, a Roman Emperor who attempted to revive paganism, to James, Duke of York, (later King James II) who was a Catholic and a potential successor to the English throne.