![[NOGARET, Félix (1740-1831).] L’Arétin François, par un membre de l’Académie des dames. [Bound with:] – Les Épices de Vénus ou pièces diverses du même académicien. London [Paris]: [Cazin,] 1787.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_10773_0141_001(nogaret_felix_laretin_francois_par_un_membre_de_lacademie_des_dames_bo012622).jpg?w=1)
![[NOGARET, Félix (1740-1831).] L’Arétin François, par un membre de l’Académie des dames. [Bound with:] – Les Épices de Vénus ou pièces diverses du même académicien. London [Paris]: [Cazin,] 1787.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_10773_0141_002(nogaret_felix_laretin_francois_par_un_membre_de_lacademie_des_dames_bo012725).jpg?w=1)
![[NOGARET, Félix (1740-1831).] L’Arétin François, par un membre de l’Académie des dames. [Bound with:] – Les Épices de Vénus ou pièces diverses du même académicien. London [Paris]: [Cazin,] 1787.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_10773_0141_000(nogaret_felix_laretin_francois_par_un_membre_de_lacademie_des_dames_bo125932).jpg?w=1)
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[NOGARET, Félix (1740-1831).] L’Arétin François, par un membre de l’Académie des dames. [Bound with:] – Les Épices de Vénus ou pièces diverses du même académicien. London [Paris]: [Cazin,] 1787.
2 parts in one volume, octavo (201 x 128 mm). 19 engraved plates including the frontispiece, by Elluin after Borel, printed on strong paper. (Occasional light spotting, occasional minor soiling, minor loses in some leaves in part 2.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, perhaps by Courleval, flat spine gilt in compartments, green morocco label gilt, sides with gilt border, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (corners and joints rubbed). Provenance: manuscript poems in an unidentified contemporary hand, in black ink, on twelve or more leaves.
FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER ISSUE, OF ONE OF THE MOST HANDSOME 18TH-CENTURY EROTIC BOOKS, and the finest work by Elluin and Borel: the partnership responsible for some of the most attractively illustrated erotic books of that century. The ordinary issue is in a smaller, duodecimo format; here, in this large paper issue, an early owner has filled some of the wide margins with bawdy poems and verse tales in a neat contemporary hand. One poem is titled ‘La Vierge immaculée’; a sonnet opens: ‘J’ai essayé de tout, et du cul et du con, / D’orgeuilleuses marquises, et de fraiches grisettes’ etc.; and another: ‘Foins! Des platoniques amours! / Viens, mon ami, baisons toujours’ etc. A note by an enthusiastic bookseller suggests that the hand is de Sade’s, but it is, as yet, unidentified. The copies in the British Library and Bibliothèque nationale de France are from the ordinary, smaller format issue. Cohen-DeRicci 89; Dutel A-99; Eros invaincu 3; Pia Enfer, 82.
2 parts in one volume, octavo (201 x 128 mm). 19 engraved plates including the frontispiece, by Elluin after Borel, printed on strong paper. (Occasional light spotting, occasional minor soiling, minor loses in some leaves in part 2.) Contemporary sprinkled calf, perhaps by Courleval, flat spine gilt in compartments, green morocco label gilt, sides with gilt border, gilt edges, marbled endpapers (corners and joints rubbed). Provenance: manuscript poems in an unidentified contemporary hand, in black ink, on twelve or more leaves.
FIRST EDITION, LARGE PAPER ISSUE, OF ONE OF THE MOST HANDSOME 18TH-CENTURY EROTIC BOOKS, and the finest work by Elluin and Borel: the partnership responsible for some of the most attractively illustrated erotic books of that century. The ordinary issue is in a smaller, duodecimo format; here, in this large paper issue, an early owner has filled some of the wide margins with bawdy poems and verse tales in a neat contemporary hand. One poem is titled ‘La Vierge immaculée’; a sonnet opens: ‘J’ai essayé de tout, et du cul et du con, / D’orgeuilleuses marquises, et de fraiches grisettes’ etc.; and another: ‘Foins! Des platoniques amours! / Viens, mon ami, baisons toujours’ etc. A note by an enthusiastic bookseller suggests that the hand is de Sade’s, but it is, as yet, unidentified. The copies in the British Library and Bibliothèque nationale de France are from the ordinary, smaller format issue. Cohen-DeRicci 89; Dutel A-99; Eros invaincu 3; Pia Enfer, 82.
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