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Edité par The Studio 1904, 1904
Vendeur : Joel Rudikoff Art Books, White Plains, NY, Etats-Unis
4to, cloth. lvi pp of text, 141 plates (9 in color). Clean and reasonably tight internally, but the cloth frayed at the head and foot of the spine and at the points; endpaper split at the topp of the front hinge; no dj.
Edité par Paris: A. Quantin, 1881, 1881
Vendeur : Cole & Contreras / Sylvan Cole Gallery, Sitges, BCN, Espagne
Edition originale
A very attractive edition of this 18th-century text about scandals in high society. One of 50 numbered large-paper copies beautifully printed on fine China paper. Illustrated with etchings by Gaujean. Frontispiece etching is two states: in color on Holland paper, and in bistre on Whatman paper. 4to, original wraps. Wraps light worn and soiled (but still attractive), internally fine.
Edité par Édouard Rouveyre,, Paris, 1878
Vendeur : Justin Croft Antiquarian Books Ltd ABA, Faversham, Royaume-Uni
One of 100 copies, this example one of 65 on Whatman paper, of Uzanne's influential edition of de Sade's most important and enduring critical essay. It had first appeared as a preface to Les crimes de l'amour (1799) and sought to trace the origins and development of the modern or psychological novel from classical literature to the eighteenth-century works of Rousseau, Voltaire, De Graffigny, Marivaux and Crébillon fils and in de Sade's own Aline et Valcourt. De Sade identifies Richardson and Fielding as the masters of the genre ('C'est Richardson, c'est Fielding qui nous ont appris que l'étude profonde du coeur de l'homme, véritable dédale de la nature, peut seul inspirer le romancier.') and he prefers Lewis to Radcliffe among gothic novelists. He also denies his authorship of Justine, attributed to him by contemporaries, writing 'jamais je n'ai fait de tels ouvrages, et je n'en ferai sûrement jamais.'Uzanne adds a bio-bibliographical preface, the latter portion providing a checklist of de Sade's works and a critical overview of nineteenth-century studies. 8vo (180 × 105 mm), pp. xlviii, 53, [11]. Partially uncut in original printed wrappers, preserved in modern red quarter morocco. Wrappers slightly thumbed, but a very good copy.