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356 - [DORAT (Claude Joseph)].
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[DORAT (Claude Joseph)]. *Les baisers*, preceded by the month of May. The Hague and Paris: Delalain, 1770. In-8, porphyry calfskin, smooth spine with decoration, title label in dark green marbled paper, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, gilt edges (contemporary binding). Title in red and black. The illustrations consist of a frontispiece title page, a title vignette, a full-page illustration by Eisen, and 22 vignettes and 22 end-piece illustrations by Eisen and Marillier, engraved by Aliamet, Baquoy, Binet, Delaunay, Lingée, De Longueil, Masquelier, Massard, and Ponce. This work, illustrated with impeccable taste and consummate grace, ranks among the masterpieces of the 18th century. A very fine copy of the first edition (recognizable by the pagination errors in the first pages of the Month of May) printed on Holland paper.
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