GALLANT LITERATURE. CURIOSA. EROTIC POETRY. LES PETITS CHEFS - Lot 227

GALLANT LITERATURE. CURIOSA. EROTIC POETRY. LES PETITS CHEFS-D'OEUVRE du XVIIIe siècle (collection). Paris, Edouard Rouveyre, 1880-1881. 3 volumes in-8. Contemporary brown half-maroquin with corners, 5-rib spine, gilt author, title and date, small-iron decorated caissons, double gilt fillet on covers, gilt head. A fine set of all that has appeared from this charming illustrated collection of 18th-century gallant texts, in uniform binding. Very rare. Limited edition of 600 copies. Each volume is one of 10 numbered on japon (n° 4), the first paper after 2 unique ones on rose paper and parchment. The plates, headbands and tailpieces are in 3 states for each. -FAVRE (Abbé). Les Quatre heures de la toilette des dames. Erotic poem in four songs. 1880. -DUBUISSON (Pierre-Ulric). Tableau de la volupté ou Les Quatre Parties du Jour; Poème en Vers Libres. 1881. -PEZAY (A.-F.-J. Masson de). Zélis au bain. Poem in four songs. 1881. Spines slightly faded, endpapers and serpents a little oxidized.