Claude Joseph Dorat (1734-1780)

Lot 162
09.12.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 162 | Claude Joseph Dorat (1734-1780)
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£ 1 200 – 1 800
Claude Joseph Dorat (1734-1780)

Les Baisers, précédés du mois de Mai, poëme. 1770

DORAT, Claude Joseph (1734-1780). Les Baisers, précédés du mois de Mai, poëme. The Hague and Paris: Lambert & Delalain, 1770.



'The twenty-two headpieces and twenty-two tailpieces with which Eisen adorned Dorat's hundred odd pages of text turn the book into a veritable paean to voluptuousness. And far from being a handicap, the small scale of the illustrations intensifies their appeal ... This triumph of miniature art is the apotheosis of the vignette' (Ray). Two editions were published, this being the earlier edition with titles in red and black, and numerous mispaginations in Mois de Mais. Cohen-de Ricci 308-311; Ray French 31; Sander 495.



Octavo (210 x 135mm). Extra-illustrated with an engraved portrait of the author inserted before engraved title by N. Ponce, additional letterpress title printed in red and black with vignette by J. Aliamet, one engraved plate by Longueil, 44 head- and tailpieces, all after Eisen (occasional faint spotting or thumb-soiling). Blue morocco by Lortic, signed and with ticket, sides elaborately decorated in gilt with wide tooled border of fleurons with small birds, spine with raised bands, lettered in two, the others elaborately gilt with central floral motif with vases and small birds with foliate surround, wide gilt turn-ins composed of birds nestling in a vine filled with leaves and grapes, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (raised bands faint rubbed, otherwise in fine condition). Provenance: 'EOB' (small booklabel).

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