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

. 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

CHF 740.—
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Dorat, (Claude-Joseph).
Les Baisers précédés du Mois de Mai.

. Les Baisers précédés du Mois de Mai.

With numerous engr. vignettes by Charles Eisen. XXV, (1), 106 pp.; 48 pp. Small 4to. Full brown morocco over four raised bands with floral pattern, spine gilt, top edge embossed and gilt. Marbled endpapers. In slipcase. – Rouen, J. Lemonnyer, 1880.

One of 50 copies on China paper, of a total limited edition of 200 copies on „grand papier“. With an additional double extra suite of all vignettes, of which one in red. Reimpression of the original 1770 edition. Dorats „Baisers“ are followed by „Imitations de poètes Latins“ by Johannes Secundus (i.e. N. Evaerts). – Vicaire III, 284; Carteret IV, 141 (“Réimpression réussite et recherchée“). – Exlibris on second flyleaf. Fine copy. – Best.-Nr. 18583

CHF 530.—
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Dorat, (Claude-Joseph).
Two collective volumes with smaller works by the author.

. Two collective volumes with smaller works by the author.

With engr. plates. 8vo. Contemp. green morocco, spine gilt with 2 labels. All edges gilt. – Var. places, var. printers, 1765–1777.

Nice two-volumes set in a characteristic 18th-century binding and with interesting bookseller’s label „Basile Issakoff“ in vol. I. The bookseller B. Issakoff from St. Petersburg installed his bookshop in Paris in 1847. – Best.-Nr. 22310

CHF 70.—
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Dorat, Claude-Joseph.
Fables nouvelles. 4 parts in 2 vols.

. Fables nouvelles. 4 parts in 2 vols.

With engr. frontispiece, engr. portrait plate showing Dorat, engr. allegorical full-page illus. (repeated in vol. II), 99 engr. vignettes (incl. repeats), 99 end-pieces, engr. title vignette to vol. I, and engr. title to vol. II, all after Clément-Pierre Marillier. XXII pp., 1 leaf, 144 pp.; pp. (145) –309, (3) pp. 8vo. Contemp. marbled calf, spine gilt with labels, covers surrounded by triple gilt fillets. Edges gilt.. – La Haye and Paris, Delalain, 1773 (recte 1775).

Revised and enlarged de luxe edition of Dorat’s 99 fables in its re-dated impression of c. 1775 (many vignettes dated 1774 and 1775), but still showing the typographic characteristics of the first impression in vol. I as listed by Cohen and Lewine. Most desirable copy on “papier de Hollande”. Claude-Joseph Dorat (1734–1780) published a first proof of 83 of his witty fables in 1772. This first edition had great success and was re-issued in the present enlarged edition, sumptuously illustrated by Clément-Pierre Marillier (1740–1808), the outstanding illustrator of the Louis XVI period. More than 25 engravers executed his drawings which show the motifs of the fables within an ornamental frame. – Bodemann 157.2; Fabula docet 102; Landwehr 142; Cohen/de Ricci 313–316 (“chef-d’oeuvre de Marillier”); Lewine 150f.; Sander 508. – Ex-libris “Bibli. de Mr. de Beaumont” on paste-down of vol. I. Very good copy without any flaws. – Best.-Nr. 5443

CHF 700.—
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