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L'Aretin... ou recueil de postures érotiques, d'après les gravures à l'eau-forte... avec le texte explicatif de ces sujets [by Croze-Magnan]. A la nouvelle Cythere [i.e. Paris: P. Didot, 1798]

Condition Note: 4to (320 x 242mm.), half-title, 20 engraved plates by Coiny, each in two states (etching and avant la lettre), later crushed red morocco gilt by Chambolle-Duru, gilt dentelles, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, occasional light spotting on etchings, extremities very slightly rubbed

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PROVENANCE

Sir David Lionel Salomons, armorial bookplate; R. Zierer, bookplate; Roger Peyrefitte, bookplate

LITERATURE

Cohen-de Ricci 88; Nordmann 6

NOTE

"C'est le plus artistique des livres érotiques sous le rapport de l'exécution des dessins, mais le moins voluptueux, quant à l'expression des personnages" (Cohen-de Ricci). The plates are thought to be copies of those executed by Pieter de Jode in Antwerp at the start of the seventeenth century, after drawings by Carracci. This work was reprinted in a smaller format a few years later (c. 1800) with coloured plates.