LES BAISERS, PRECEDES DU MOIS DE MAI, POEME.

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Octavo 207x132mm, beautifully bound by Marcellin Lortic (1852-1928) signed in gilt at the foot of the spine, full crushed red morocco, the boards with a gilt triple fillet border. Smooth spine divided into six panels with gilt compartments, lettered in the second and third, the others with a flower and sprigs, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt double fillet, the turn-ins with gilt rolls, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Engraved title-page by Ponce, one plate by de Longueil, title-page vignette by Aliamet, 44 head and tailpieces engraved by Aliamet, Baquoy, Binet, De Launay, Lingée, de Longueil, Masquelier, Massard, Née, and Ponce, after Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eissen (1720-1788) and two after Clement Pierre Marillier (1740-1808). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with the titlepage in black and red, the headings in red and irregular pagination to the text of Mois de Mai as described in the bibliography Cohen de Ricci (308). 'The twenty-two headpieces and twenty-two tailpieces with which Eisen adorned Dorat's hundred odd pages of text turn the book into a veritable paean to voluptuousness. And far from being a handicap, the small scale of the illustrations intensifies their appeal. This triumph of miniature art is the apotheosis of the vignette' (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book 1700 to 1914, page 31). Ray added - 'Les baisers needs to be seen in its first issue on Holland paper with ample margins and early impressions of the vignettes. Such copies may be readily identified by their title-pages in black and red and several errors of pagination in Les Mois de Mai' as here found. A lovely copy. N° de ref. del artículo 6463

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