Complete in 14 volumes (the 1796 original had 16 volumes, but 2 were dropped for this version). In French. ""Mr. Nicolas, or the Unveiled Heart: Memoirs of Restif of Bretonne". This set comprises bound copies of the original paper-bound chap books, complete with tan covers. Pages: clean, bright, tight, t.e.g., marbled eps, ribbon markers; a.e. barely tanned. Covers: Dutch marbled boards, gilt-ruled red leather backstrips and crnrs, gilt ornamentation and titles spine; modest to moderate shelfwear, extrems s bit worn, heads/tails more so, lt rubbed, some sm tears, some hinges/joints tender. Overall, a really very nice, relatively scarce set. About the author extracted from Wikipedia: Rétif de la Bretonne was inordinately vain, of extremely relaxed morals, and perhaps not entirely sane. His books were written with haste, and their licence of subject and language renders them "quite unfit for general perusal", according to the Britannica redactors. He and the Marquis de Sade maintained a mutual hate, and Jean François de La Harpe nicknamed him "the Voltaire of the chambermaids". His autobiography is "Monsieur Nicolas," wherein at the age of sixty he set down his remembrances, his notions on ethical and social points, his hatreds, and above all his numerous loves, both real and fancied. In this memoir, Retif relates the beginnings of his sexual awakenings between 1738 and 1744, when he remembers experiencing the most pleasurable of sexual stimulations in very early childhood (enough said--read the details for yourself). N° de ref. del artículo 033476

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Título: Monsieur Nicolas ou Le Coeur Humain Devoiie ...

Editorial: Isidore Liseux, Paris

Año de publicación: 1883

Encuadernación: Half-Leather

Condición: Collectible-Very Good (-)

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Edición: Reprint

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