1793 EROTIC - MAID of ORLEANS by VOLTAIRE antique ILLUSTRATED in FRENCH

[VOLTAIRE, Francois Marie Arouet, known as (1694-1778)].

La Pucelle d'Orleans, poeme heroi-comique en dix-huit chants.

Nouvelle ed.

2 volumes

[The Maid of Orleans, a heroic-comic poem in eighteen songs ]


London, Georges Eldenek (presumably fictitious); 1793

With 2 engraved frontispieces and 17 (of 18) erotic copperplates (unsigned, known under the name of "English suite" and attributed to Duflos after Marillier.)

110 pp.; 1 leaf,
pp. 111-216. 

-  Very rare, no entry in the KVK. -

Without the plate for Chant 8.

Period hardcover

Good condition, frontispiece of vol. 2 with small lower corner missing, minor toning.

 Size: 3 1/4 by 5 1/4 inches

Text in French
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