LE PLAISIR DE TOUS LES SIECLES.
A Cythere, Chez Epicure, aux dépens de la Volupté, 1776.
In-8, lemon half-cornered morocco, double gilt fillets on covers, ornate ribbed spine, green morocco title-piece, date and signature at foot, gilt head, untrimmed, bookplate (Binding by R. Petit).
[2 ff.], 42 pp. and [1 f.], 40 free figures including frontispiece, unsigned (a later handwritten note on the flyleaf attributes them to Boucher).
First edition. The volume contains 40 short tales in very crude verse on various subjects: the loves of gods and heroes, onanism, godmichae, tribadism, the incubus woman. The last tale recounts the story of Father Girard and La Cadière.
Stains on the front cover, some foxing.
Gay III, 761; Dutel, A-881*.
Missing from BnF. No copy in CCFr or WorldCat.
From the library of Gérard Nordmann with his bookplate (Vente I, 67).
Extremely rare book whose engravings are attributed to Boucher. Probably the only known copy complete with plates.
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