RESTIF de La BRETONNE (Nicolas Edme)]. French Women, or XXXIV Selected Examples in Customs
current, suitable to lead Daughters, Wives, & Mothers. In Neufchâtel, and is in Paris, Chés...
Guillot, Monsieur's bookseller, 1786. 4 volumes in 2 volumes in-12 (98 x 168 mm), red morocco, spine with nerves
ornate, gold edges (Bound by S Kaufmann).
FIRST EDITION & FIRST STATE.
34 figures engraved by GIRAUD, after BINET.
A copy containing the eight unfolded leaves of the end of volume IV bearing the "Tables des contemporaines" and an
list of the author's works.
From the Digby H. R. Wingfield Library, with ex-libris.
Corners and jaws slightly rubbed, one of them cracked and fragile; some slightly damaged leaves, including 271/272 of the volume
I (restored).
Rives Childs, XXXI, 296-298; Cohen, 878-879 (who notes that "in none of Restif's other works has Binet exaggerated so much the smallness of heads
and the fineness of women's waistlines").
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