Histoire critique de Nicolas Flamel et de Pernelle sa femme : recueillie d'actes anciens qui justifient l'origine & la médiocrité de leur fortune contre les imputations des alchimistes : on y a joint le testament de Pernelle & plusieurs autres pieces intéressantes
A 1761 Paris octavo by Étienne François Villain arguing from archival deeds that Nicolas Flamel and his wife Pernelle were modest householders rather than successful alchemists, printed for antiquarian and learned readers by G. Desprez. The plates are typographic: cast-ornament headbands, fleuron and foliate tailpieces, ruled borders of diapered flowers, plus combed and swirled marbled endpapers in blue, ochre and rust.
