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(French Erotica) LOUVET, J. B. Les Amours Du Chevalier De Faublas; Par...
Paris: Chez L'Auteur..., (1798). In four volumes. Third edition (so stated on the title). Extra-Illustrated. Tall 8vo., full reddish brown calf, raised bands, gilt compartments, covers decorated with two triple gilt borders with gilt decorations at the corners, inner dentelles gilt, A.E.G., xvi, 244; 274; 307; 230pp. With 4 engraved titlepages, 27 illustrations as called for and this copy has been extra-illustrated with an additional 36 plates including a loose proof plate for plate 15 (one of the 27 plates called for). A number of the plates are erotic. Pages in volume three have been misbound so the pagination sequence runs 1-96, 193-272, 97-192, 273-307pp. with the pages all present. Spines uniformly faded to tan o/w a fine copy in an attractive binding. Gay I, p175
Jean Baptiste Louvet De Couvrai [1760-1797] revolutionary, politician (member of the Convention Nationale) and author. This work, his most famous, is "typical of many frivolous, licentious novels of its time, and still mentioned. Faublas, the amiable hero, is the victim of his own charms. His amorous adventures, recounted with a certain lively force, begin with his entry into society at the age of sixteen. He loves several women by the way and three in particular. A jealous husband and a despairing suicide reduce the three to one. The novel ends on a moral note: Faublas , who had happened to settle down with his remaining love, is haunted by the avenging phantoms of the other two and goes mad." (Oxford Comp. to French Literature).
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