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[GERVAISE DE LA TOUCHE, Jean-Charles (1715-1782).] Mémoires de Saturnin, écrits, par lui-même, Nouvelle édition, corrigée & augmentée, avec Figures. Premiere partie [- Seconde patie (sic)]. 'A Londres' [Paris: Cazin], 1787.
2 volumes, 8° (189 x 117mm); vol. 1: [2]ff., 235pp ; vol. 2: [2]ff., 151pp. Printed on papier bleuté. With half-titles. 24 engraved plates by Elluin after Borel, printed on white laid paper. (Some scattered spotting, some plates re-margined at an early date possibly as issued.) Early 20th-century textured blue cloth, flat spines divided in compartments with blind rules and lettered and numbered in gilt, the sides with blind-stamped scrolling borders, marbled endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed, one board lightly soiled).
THE RARE LARGE-PAPER ISSUE OF THE FIRST CAZIN EDITION. ‘It is the most attractive edition’ (Cohen-de Ricci) of ‘the most celebrated and oldest erotic novel’ (Perceau), with superb engravings by François Rolland Elluin after drawings by Antoine Borel: the remarkable partnership responsible for illustrating some of the finest erotic books of the 18th century. Cazin also published a small-format, 18mo issue with the same date. RBH records only two copies of this large-paper issue having been offered at auction. Cohen-de Ricci 431; Dutel A-523; Eros invaincu 29; Pia 622.
2 volumes, 8° (189 x 117mm); vol. 1: [2]ff., 235pp ; vol. 2: [2]ff., 151pp. Printed on papier bleuté. With half-titles. 24 engraved plates by Elluin after Borel, printed on white laid paper. (Some scattered spotting, some plates re-margined at an early date possibly as issued.) Early 20th-century textured blue cloth, flat spines divided in compartments with blind rules and lettered and numbered in gilt, the sides with blind-stamped scrolling borders, marbled endpapers (extremities lightly rubbed, one board lightly soiled).
THE RARE LARGE-PAPER ISSUE OF THE FIRST CAZIN EDITION. ‘It is the most attractive edition’ (Cohen-de Ricci) of ‘the most celebrated and oldest erotic novel’ (Perceau), with superb engravings by François Rolland Elluin after drawings by Antoine Borel: the remarkable partnership responsible for illustrating some of the finest erotic books of the 18th century. Cazin also published a small-format, 18mo issue with the same date. RBH records only two copies of this large-paper issue having been offered at auction. Cohen-de Ricci 431; Dutel A-523; Eros invaincu 29; Pia 622.
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