CHIMOT, Edouard and MEUSNIER DE QUERLON, Anne-Gabriel. Les S - Lot 273

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CHIMOT, Edouard and MEUSNIER DE QUERLON, Anne-Gabriel. Les S - Lot 273
CHIMOT, Edouard and MEUSNIER DE QUERLON, Anne-Gabriel. Les Soupers de Daphné suivis des Dortoirs de Lacédémone. Paris, Éditions Éryx, 1951. In-4, leaves, in dust jacket. 116 pages, 3 ff.n.ch. (table). 16 color etchings out of text. Continuation in black of the 16 etchings. Black marks on dust jacket, minor black marks on a few leaves. Edition illustrated with 16 original etchings by Edouard Chimot, of "Les Soupers de Daphné" and "Les Dortoirs de Lacédémone", reprinting the full text of the original 1740 edition. Limited edition of 429 numbered copies on large white Rives vellum (number missing). Edition accompanied by a suite of 16 black etchings. The author, Anne-Gabriel Meusnier de Querlon, a lawyer at the Parliament of Paris and employee of the King's Library, was a true jack-of-all-trades, writing for newspapers such as the "Gazette de France" while also creating a substantial erotic output, in the spirit of 17th-century libertines. In very good condition.
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