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CURIOSA – Contes nouveaux. Dans un conte parfois la verité se trouve. London [but Paris]: n.p., 1781.
Small 8º (151 x 90mm). Engraved and printed in red throughout. Six folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, red edges (joints expertly repaired, binder’s blanks browned). Provenance: ‘E.M.B.R.’ (manuscript cipher on front endpaper verso) – Alfred Bégis (lawyer, bibliophile; by repute, manuscript inscription) – ‘1434’ (manuscript shelf mark on small paper label).
ONLY EDITION, ENTIRELY ENGRAVED AND PRINTED IN RED, OF A COLLECTION OF EROTIC SHORT STORIES IN VERSE.
The illustrations include a title vignette, 3 tail-pieces and 6 folded erotic medallions.
Very rare: only a handful of copies can be traced.
Cohen I, 252 (‘Il y a aussi des exemplaires avec les figures tirées en noir’); Gay, 710-711: (‘Volume fort rare’); Soultrait 18th Century 33.
Small 8º (151 x 90mm). Engraved and printed in red throughout. Six folding engraved plates. Contemporary mottled calf, flat spine gilt in compartments, red morocco label, red edges (joints expertly repaired, binder’s blanks browned). Provenance: ‘E.M.B.R.’ (manuscript cipher on front endpaper verso) – Alfred Bégis (lawyer, bibliophile; by repute, manuscript inscription) – ‘1434’ (manuscript shelf mark on small paper label).
ONLY EDITION, ENTIRELY ENGRAVED AND PRINTED IN RED, OF A COLLECTION OF EROTIC SHORT STORIES IN VERSE.
The illustrations include a title vignette, 3 tail-pieces and 6 folded erotic medallions.
Very rare: only a handful of copies can be traced.
Cohen I, 252 (‘Il y a aussi des exemplaires avec les figures tirées en noir’); Gay, 710-711: (‘Volume fort rare’); Soultrait 18th Century 33.
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