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Année Galante, ou Etrenne à l'Amour. Contes! Enrichis de Figures et d'Ariettes. [Paris: 1773.]
Octavo (257 x 171 mm). Engraved throughout. 41 leaves, including the illustrated title and 12 vignettes all hand-coloured. (Title with short repaired tear in the margin, some leaves with light marginal spotting or faint damp staining.) Full red morocco by Lavaux, with his stamp, spine tooled and titled in gilt, gilt turn-ins, slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, FINELY HAND-COLOURED, of this wonderful calendar of erotic tales and songs, each month of the year with an explicit vignette with a verse caption. A reprint was published in Brussels in 1876 which is sometimes confused with this rare first edition. WorldCat locates four copies only. Dutel A-80; Gay-Lemonnyer I, 227; Kearney 98; Pia Enfer, 65.
Octavo (257 x 171 mm). Engraved throughout. 41 leaves, including the illustrated title and 12 vignettes all hand-coloured. (Title with short repaired tear in the margin, some leaves with light marginal spotting or faint damp staining.) Full red morocco by Lavaux, with his stamp, spine tooled and titled in gilt, gilt turn-ins, slipcase.
FIRST EDITION, FINELY HAND-COLOURED, of this wonderful calendar of erotic tales and songs, each month of the year with an explicit vignette with a verse caption. A reprint was published in Brussels in 1876 which is sometimes confused with this rare first edition. WorldCat locates four copies only. Dutel A-80; Gay-Lemonnyer I, 227; Kearney 98; Pia Enfer, 65.
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