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[DORAT, Claude Joseph].
*Les Baisers précédés du mois de mai*, a poem.
Rouen, J. Lemonnyer, 1880.
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*Les Baisers précédés du mois de mai*, a poem.
Rouen, J. Lemonnyer, 1880.
Large 8vo, xxv–106–48 pp. Burgundy morocco, raised ribbed spine, gilt title, compartments decorated with small ironwork and gilt fillets, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, double gilt fillets on the headbands and footbands, gilt scrolls and fillets on the cap bands, gilt edges [Chambolle-Duru] (foxing).
A fine copy in morocco leather binding.
A verbatim reprint in 1880 of the original 1770 edition with engravings by Eisen
The illustrations consist of a frontispiece, a plate, numerous vignettes at the head of chapters and tailpieces.
Special edition on large-format paper, limited to 200 copies, including 50 on Chinese paper; this is no. 96.
Wide margins, text in red and black.
Engravings accompanied by two sets on Chinese paper, also in bistre and orange sanguine.