![EROTICA — Invocation à l’Amour. Chant Philosophique. London [but Paris]: by a Virtuoso of the good fashion, n.d. [c.1810.]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14301_0215_000(erotica_invocation_a_lamour_chant_philosophique_london_but_paris_by_a034611).jpg?w=1)
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EROTICA — Invocation à l’Amour. Chant Philosophique. London [but Paris]: by a Virtuoso of the good fashion, n.d. [c.1810.]
A very rare and finely illustrated erotic work, complete with 17 plates with original hand-colour. According to ABPC/RBH, this is the first complete, hand-coloured copy ever to appear at auction. The Nordmann copy was uncoloured, and Dutel does not record a coloured issue. WorldCat lists two institutional copies: in the Wellcome Library, which lacks 2 plates, and in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, which lacks all the plates. Dutel A-573; Pia Enfer, 677.
Oblong octavo (156 x 203mm). Frontispiece, 16 stipple-engraved plates each accompanied by a quatrain of erotic verse, all hand-coloured (some light spotting, engraved title marginally shorter).
A very rare and finely illustrated erotic work, complete with 17 plates with original hand-colour. According to ABPC/RBH, this is the first complete, hand-coloured copy ever to appear at auction. The Nordmann copy was uncoloured, and Dutel does not record a coloured issue. WorldCat lists two institutional copies: in the Wellcome Library, which lacks 2 plates, and in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, which lacks all the plates. Dutel A-573; Pia Enfer, 677.
Oblong octavo (156 x 203mm). Frontispiece, 16 stipple-engraved plates each accompanied by a quatrain of erotic verse, all hand-coloured (some light spotting, engraved title marginally shorter).
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