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360 - Favre, (Abbé) de. Les quatre heures de la toilette des dames, poeme érotique en quatre chants. Paris, Bastien, 1779. 5 leaves, 84 pages. With engraved title, 5 engraved vignettes and 4 copperplate engravings by Arrivet, Halbou, Le Grand, Leroy and Patas after Le Clerc. Large octavo. Contemporary leather binding with rich wrought iron decoration and spine label (somewhat rubbed).
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Favre, (Abbé) de. Les quatre heures de la toilette des dames, poeme érotique en quatre chants. Paris, Bastien, 1779. 5 leaves, 84 pages. With engraved title, 5 engraved vignettes and 4 copperplate engravings by Arrivet, Halbou, Le Grand, Leroy and Patas after Le Clerc. Large octavo. Contemporary leather binding with rich wrought iron decoration and spine label (somewhat rubbed). Lewine 179; Cohen/Ricci 376f.; Gay-Lemmonnier III, 903; Fürstenberg 106. - First edition of this magnificently illustrated Rococo work. - Dedicated to the Princess de Lamballe, whose portrait contemporaries claimed to have recognized in the final vignette as a beautiful, free-floating female head. De Lamballe was guillotined in 1792 while serving as a royal lady-in-waiting. - Wide-margined copy on heavy paper.
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