Nicolas Edme Retif de La Bretonne (1734-1806) Le Paysan et la Paysane Pervertis; our les Dangers de la Ville.

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Nicolas Edme Retif de La Bretonne (1734-1806) Le Paysan et la Paysane Pervertis; our les Dangers de la Ville. The Hague: [no printer], 1784. 12mo, sixteen parts in four volumes, illustrated with 120 plates (sixteen frontispieces and 104 other full-page plates); bound in later half red morocco, marbled boards and edges, dusty but good, 6 1/4 x 4 in. (4)

N.B. This work is a fusion, according to Lacroix, of the two novels Le Paysan Perverti and La Paysanne Pervertie, augmented and entirely redesigned. Although it dates from 1784, the book likely appeared in February 1787. (Catalog note from the Bibliotheque Nationale.)
Estimate $400-600

I: A13, B-J12, K2, L10, M-X12, Y6; II: A4, B-H12, I4, I8, K-Y12 ; III: A-J12, K10, L2, M-Y12; IV: A-I12, J4, K8, L-Y12.


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