VENUS EN RUT, or Life of a famous libertine. Nouvelle éditio - Lot 115

VENUS EN RUT, or Life of a famous libertine. Nouvelle édition Corrigée & augmentée par l'Auteur. A Luxurville, Chez Hercule Tapefort, Imprimeur des Dames, 1791. 2 volumes in-12, contemporary green paper boards, spines decorated with fine gilt roulettes, red morocco title-pieces, modern lined slipcase. 119 pp., 131 pp. 7 free figures (4 in the first volume, 3 in the second of 4?). Bibliographers cite an edition published the same year, but Volume 2 has 152 pp. and 8 engravings, including a frontispiece for each volume. Our copy is complete with 131 pp. for the second volume. Each figure is marked with the page to which it corresponds, but none in the frontispiece. Stains to bindings, corners rubbed. Pia, 1494; Dutel A-1160*. A classic of erotic literature in a rare edition, in attractive contemporary boards.