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MÉRARD DE SAINT-JUST, Simon-Pierre] - Oeuvres galantes et li…
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715
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MÉRARD DE SAINT-JUST, Simon-Pierre] - Oeuvres galantes et li…
See original version (French)
Estimate €300
Voluntary lot
Description
MÉRARD DE SAINT-JUST, Simon-Pierre] - Oeuvres galantes et littéraires by Mme de Palmareze. Paris, chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1792. 3 volumes in 2 vol. in-16, (3) ff, 248 pp ; 184 pp ; (3) ff, 136 pp, several russets, half calf cherry with corners, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt head (PETIT successor of SIMIER).
GAY II, 158. PIA col. 521. The publisher (Mérard de Saint-Just) says that only 100 copies of les oeuvres galantes were printed. Also appeared under the title (first edition cited by Gay) : Les Espiégleries, joyeusetés, bons mots, folies, etc., by the author, 1782. This dated title appears in only a few copies and would have been added after the fact. The work also appeared under the title: Folies de la jeunesse de sir S. Peters Talassa-Aitheï, at an unknown date. The true date of the first edition is probably 1789. A collection of free prose and verse pieces of the grossest obscenity. It includes a proverb in two acts entitled: L'esprit des moeurs au XVIIIe siècle. Pornographic in nature, it is said to have been performed on the sometimes libertine theatre of Mlle Guimard. Mérard specifies in a note at the end of the 3rd vol. that his work had been printed at least twelve years before their publication, but had been seized by the authorities and recovered after the capture of Bastillle. Reprinted under cover by Gay in Brussels in 1880.
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