BOYER d'ARGENS, Jean-Baptiste (1703-1771), attributed to]. Thérèse philosophe, ou Mémoires Pour servir à l’Histoire de D. Dirrag, & de Mademoiselle Eradice . ‘Londres’ [but Paris]: n.p. [Cazin], 1785.
BOYER d'ARGENS, Jean-Baptiste (1703-1771), attributed to]. Thérèse philosophe, ou Mémoires Pour servir à l’Histoire de D. Dirrag, & de Mademoiselle Eradice . ‘Londres’ [but Paris]: n.p. [Cazin], 1785. Two volumes, 18° (153 x 94mm, with deckle edges). 20 engraved plates, including the frontispiece, by Elluin after Borel. (Occasional light marginal spotting and soiling, some plates in vol. 2 with a small dampstain in the bottom margin.) Later half-calf and mottled sides, the spines with raised bands and gilt in compartments, red and blue morocco double lettering pieces, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed). A TALL COPY OF ‘THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EDITION’ (Cohen-de Ricci) of this icon of libertinism, and one of the earliest pornographic novels in a European language. The superb engravings are by François-Rolland Elluin (1745-c.1810) after drawings by Antoine Borel (1743-c.1810): the partnership responsible for some of the finest illustrated erotic editions of the 18th century. Thérèse philosophe elaborates on the notorious Girard-Cadière scandal, a subject reprised by Huxley in his The Devils of Loudun . Cohen-de Ricci 735; Dutel A-1092; Pia 1426.
BOYER d'ARGENS, Jean-Baptiste (1703-1771), attributed to]. Thérèse philosophe, ou Mémoires Pour servir à l’Histoire de D. Dirrag, & de Mademoiselle Eradice . ‘Londres’ [but Paris]: n.p. [Cazin], 1785.
BOYER d'ARGENS, Jean-Baptiste (1703-1771), attributed to]. Thérèse philosophe, ou Mémoires Pour servir à l’Histoire de D. Dirrag, & de Mademoiselle Eradice . ‘Londres’ [but Paris]: n.p. [Cazin], 1785. Two volumes, 18° (153 x 94mm, with deckle edges). 20 engraved plates, including the frontispiece, by Elluin after Borel. (Occasional light marginal spotting and soiling, some plates in vol. 2 with a small dampstain in the bottom margin.) Later half-calf and mottled sides, the spines with raised bands and gilt in compartments, red and blue morocco double lettering pieces, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed). A TALL COPY OF ‘THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EDITION’ (Cohen-de Ricci) of this icon of libertinism, and one of the earliest pornographic novels in a European language. The superb engravings are by François-Rolland Elluin (1745-c.1810) after drawings by Antoine Borel (1743-c.1810): the partnership responsible for some of the finest illustrated erotic editions of the 18th century. Thérèse philosophe elaborates on the notorious Girard-Cadière scandal, a subject reprised by Huxley in his The Devils of Loudun . Cohen-de Ricci 735; Dutel A-1092; Pia 1426.
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