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[CLELAND, John (1709-1789).] La Fille de Joie, ou mémoires de Miss Fanny, écrits par elle-même. Paris: Madame Gourdan, 1786.
Two parts in one volume, 8° (191 x 118mm); [2]ff., 235pp. Complete with 37 engraved plates by Delcroche, comprising two additional engraved titles, a frontispiece, and 34 engraved plates [numbered 1-33, including a ‘5bis’]. (Occasional light spotting.) 19th-century black half leather with navy blue moiré style sides, the spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments, lettered directly in gilt, pale green moiré style endpapers (extremities rubbed).
‘BY FAR THE MOST LUXURIOUS OF ALL THE FRENCH EDITIONS’ (Ashbee) of the most celebrated English erotic novel. Through the course of its long, clandestine printing history Fanny Hill was the object of constant government prosecution, with editions systematically suppressed, and often destroyed. Any 18th-century illustrated edition is rare. The frontispiece is dated 1777 because Delcroche produced the engravings around that time for an edition which was never published. Ashbee Catena, pp. 76-77; Dutel A-411; Pia 916; Private Case 424.
Two parts in one volume, 8° (191 x 118mm); [2]ff., 235pp. Complete with 37 engraved plates by Delcroche, comprising two additional engraved titles, a frontispiece, and 34 engraved plates [numbered 1-33, including a ‘5bis’]. (Occasional light spotting.) 19th-century black half leather with navy blue moiré style sides, the spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments, lettered directly in gilt, pale green moiré style endpapers (extremities rubbed).
‘BY FAR THE MOST LUXURIOUS OF ALL THE FRENCH EDITIONS’ (Ashbee) of the most celebrated English erotic novel. Through the course of its long, clandestine printing history Fanny Hill was the object of constant government prosecution, with editions systematically suppressed, and often destroyed. Any 18th-century illustrated edition is rare. The frontispiece is dated 1777 because Delcroche produced the engravings around that time for an edition which was never published. Ashbee Catena, pp. 76-77; Dutel A-411; Pia 916; Private Case 424.
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