Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Dorat, Claude-Joseph. Les baisers précédés du mois de mai, poëme.

With engr. frontispiece, copperplate, engr. title vignette and 44 engr. head- and tail-pieces, all after Eisen and Marillier. 119, 47 pp. Large 8vo. 20th-century red grained half morocco, spine gilt. Top edge gilt. – La Haye and Paris, Lambert and Delalain, 1770.

Second edition of the same year as the first of Dorat’s „Baisers“, in a large paper copy with uncut lower and outer margins. This copy with the supplement „Imitations des poètes Latins“. One of the classics of French 18th-century book art. – Cohen/de R. 308ff. (“Chef-d’oeuvre du XVIIIe siècle“); Sander 495. – Uncut margins somewhat dusty, fine copy. – Best.-Nr. 22466