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Books, Autographs & Prints / Part II

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Erotica - Bernard, Pierre-Joseph

L'art d'Aimer, et Poésies diverses, 1780

Estimate

€ 120 - 200

Sold

€ 154

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

S.l., n.t., [c.ca 1780]. In 8th. Antiporta engraved in copper by & nbsp; Lud. Drappe, woodcut ends, slight burnishing, rare small halos, coeval binding in spotted leather, red cuts, title embossed in gold on the spine, slight abrasions, partially abraded gold decorations on the spine.

Specialist Notes

The most famous work of Pierre-Joseph Bernard (Grenoble 1708 - Choisy-le-Roi 1775), poet and writer belonging to the group of "petits poètes". A collection of erotic and voluptuous passages that the author loved to read at court and in Parisian salons. For the elegance of the erotic verses he earned the nickname of "Gentil Bernard" given to him by Voltaire in a famous letter published on the back of the title page in which & nbsp; L'Art d'Aimer & nbsp; is defined " unique ouvrage ". The collection was published in 1775, the same year as the author's death, after about thirty years after the remarkable success that his "spicy" performances had, and was harshly blamed as an obscene work.
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