[DU COUDRAY (Alexandre Jacques). Le Luxe, poëme en six chants [...] Paris, Monory, 1773. In-8 of iv-260 pp. Blond calf, smooth spine decorated, title page (contemporary binding). Rare first edition published anonymously (unlike the second edition published the following year); it is illustrated with six rather naive out-of-text engravings, probably after the author. The author, Alexandre Jacques Louis Chevalier du Coudray (1740-1789), a former king's musketeer, was governor of the town and castle of Les Andelys. (Quérard, La France littéraire II, 632.)