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Invocation à l’Amour. Chant Philosophique. London [but Paris]: by a Virtuoso of the good fashion, n.d. [c.1810.]
Small oblong folio (155 x 200 mm). 16 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates. (Lacking the frontispiece but with plate 14 bound as frontispiece, scattered spotting throughout, light marginal soiling.) Contemporary red half roan over red boards, spine in compartments with gilt and blind rules, edges gilt (extremities rubbed, sides lightly soiled and scuffed). Provenance: short inscription in red ink in a neat hand on the front endpaper.
FIRST EDITION OF THIS CHARMING, FINELY ILLUSTRATED WORK. A rare hand-coloured copy: the Nordmann copy was uncoloured, and Dutel does not record a coloured issue. WorldCat lists only one copy with the plates, in the Wellcome Library; the copy in the Bibliothèque nationale de France lacks all the plates. Dutel A-573; Gay-Lemonnyer II, 677; Pia Enfer, 677.
Small oblong folio (155 x 200 mm). 16 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates. (Lacking the frontispiece but with plate 14 bound as frontispiece, scattered spotting throughout, light marginal soiling.) Contemporary red half roan over red boards, spine in compartments with gilt and blind rules, edges gilt (extremities rubbed, sides lightly soiled and scuffed). Provenance: short inscription in red ink in a neat hand on the front endpaper.
FIRST EDITION OF THIS CHARMING, FINELY ILLUSTRATED WORK. A rare hand-coloured copy: the Nordmann copy was uncoloured, and Dutel does not record a coloured issue. WorldCat lists only one copy with the plates, in the Wellcome Library; the copy in the Bibliothèque nationale de France lacks all the plates. Dutel A-573; Gay-Lemonnyer II, 677; Pia Enfer, 677.
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