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CA46<p>A Neuwied sur le Rhin 1789.</p><p>Large folio 580 x 425 mm 1 l. 37 pages and 26 etchings. Contemporary half-roan.</p><p><b>First edition of Restif de La Bretonne's text</b> who composed these anecdotes on behalf of an editor wishing to use Moreau's plates.</p><p><b>It is illustrated with 24 prints by Moreau and 2 prints by Freudeberg.</b><br /></p><p>It is the 3rd issue of Moreau's engravings published in 1775 and 1776 under the title <i>Suite d'Estampes pour servir à l'Histoire des Mœurs et du Costume des Français du XVIIIème siècle.</i></p><p><i>Le Monument du Costume</i> includes 26 plates because to the 24 plates of Moreau composing the second and third suites of engravings two plates from Freudeberg formerly separately published as prints were added.</p><p><b>This work a combination of pictures intended to reproduce at the same time as the tone of bel air the newest modes of costumes and adjustments the latest forms of furnishing</b><b> </b>had been undertaken by its parent the publisher Prault who had initially commissioned Freudeberg a conscientious but cold and stiff draftsman to carry out a first series. The Bernese artist having expressed the desire to return to his country Prault was happy to find Moreau willing to continue them.</p><p><b>The idea was to represent in a first series of twelve subjects the life of a young worldly woman in the middle of her pleasures and maternity care:</b><br /></p><p><i>the preoccupations of pregnancy the visits of friends to the interesting young woman the announcement to the young father of the birth of a son the departure of the little godfathers for baptism; and then the intimate concert the Opera evening the walk in the woods the toilet in the salons of Versailles where we believe to see the portrait of the Princess of Lamballe etc. Moreau rendered these different scenes whose models were before his eyes these elegant figures costumes and interiors with a talent that has not been matched. We believe we are reliving the time when they were drawn so much is the illusion and the art completed.</i></p><p><b>In the second series called by the petit-maître he represents the life of a fashionable young lord</b><b><i>: </i></b><i>his rising in the midst of his people his town costume and his court dress his walk to the races his compliments to the famous dancer and the supper that follows them the resistance of a beautiful lady whose defeat is near allusion they say to a faithful adventure attached to the truth of the furnishing of the environment conscientious observer of the reality specialty and so to speak topicality of objects and things; it not only gives the scene but what frames it the physiognomy and the character of the place where it takes place.</i></p><p><b>His furniture is of the exact year his fashion is of the day. from this emerges this precious illusion these inappreciable information from his plates.</b> <i>He invents neither a cabinet nor a living room . while the other engravers indulge in the whims of their imagination the ornamentation which comes to the end of their fingers Moreau studies copies takes his models; he has a shepherdess or a marquetry table installed. it is through this patient scrupulous applied study pushed to the last limit of observation and precision that Moreau is a historian."</i></p><p><b>Very wide-margin copy preserved in its pure contemporary condition.</b></p><br /><br /><b><u>Français</u></b><p>Grand in-folio 1 feuillet non chiffré 37 pages et 26 estampes. Demi-basane de l'époque.</p><p>580 x 425 mm.</p><p><b>Edition originale du texte de Restif de la Bretonne </b>qui composa ces historiettes pour le compte d'un éditeur désireux d'utiliser les planches de Moreau.</p><p><b>Elle est ornée de 24 estampes de Moreau et de 2 estampes de Freudeberg.</b></p><p>C'est le 3ème tirage des gravures de Moreau parues en 1775 et 1776 sous le titre de <i>Suite d'Estampes pour servir à l'Histoire des Mœurs et du Costume des Français du XVIIIème siècle</i>.</p><p><i>Le Monument du Costume</i> comprend 26 planches parce qu'aux 24 planches de Moreau formant la deuxième et troisième suite d'estampes on a joint deux planches d'après Freudeberg qui avaient été publiées séparément comme estampes.</p><p><b>Cet ouvrage réunion de tableaux destinés à reproduire en même temps que le ton du bel air les modes les plus nouvelles des costumes et des ajustements les plus récentes formes de l'ameublement</b><b></b><i>avait été entrepris par son parent l'éditeur Prault qui avait d'abord chargé Freudeberg dessinateur consciencieux mais froid et compassé d'en exécuter une première série. L'artiste bernois ayant témoigné le désir de retourner dans son pays Prault fut heureux de trouver Moreau disposé à les continuer.</i></p><p><b>Il s'agissait de représenter dans une première série de douze sujets la vie d'une jeune femme mondaine au milieu de ses plaisirs et des soins de la maternité :</b></p><p><i>les préoccupations de la grossesse les visites des amies à l'intéressante jeune femme l'annonce au jeune père de la naissance d'un fils le départ des petits parrains pour le baptême ; et puis le concert intime la soirée d'Opéra la promenade au bois la toilette des salons de Versailles où l'on croit voir le portrait de la princesse de Lamballe etc. Moreau a rendu ces différentes scènes dont les modèles étaient sous ses yeux ces personnages ces costumes et ces intérieurs élégants avec un talent qui n'a pas été égalé. On croit revivre à l'époque où elles ont été dessinées tant l'illusion en est vive et l'art achevé.</i></p><p><b>Dans la seconde série appelée du</b><i><b>Petit-Maître</b></i><b> il représente la vie d'un jeune seigneur a la mode :</b> <i>son lever au milieu de ses gens son costume de ville et sa toilette de cour sa promenade aux courses ses compliments à la danseuse en renom et le souper qui les suit la résistance d'une belle dame dont la défaite est proche allusion dit-on à une aventure fidèle attaché au vrai de l'ameublement du milieu consciencieux observateur de la réalité de la spécialité et pour ainsi dire de l'actualité des objets et des choses ; il ne donne pas seulement la scène mais ce qui l'encadre la physionomie et le caractère du lieu où elle se passe.</i></p><p><b>Ses meubles sont de l'année même ses modes sont du jour. de là cette précieuse illusion ces inappréciables renseignements de ses planches</b>. <i>Il</i><i> n'invente ni un cabinet ni un salon. tandis que les autres vignettistes se laissent aller à la fantaisie de leur imagination à l'ornementation qui vient au bout de leurs doigts Moreau étudie copie prend ses modèles ; il fait poser une bergère ou une table de marqueterie. C'est par cette étude patiente scrupuleuse appliquée poussée à la dernière limite de l'observation et de la précision que Moreau est un historien.</i> "</p><p><b>Exemplaire très grand de marges en pure condition de l'époque.</b></p> hardcover
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1959039653Paris: Chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert 1959. Edition nouvelle revue sur les textes originaux et pour la première fois complète de tous les volumes prévus par l'auteur illustrées de 72 gravures et de 24 fac-similés hors-textes. 6 volumes complete b/w illus. original blue cloth Collection des Tuileries. Chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert unknown books
1959236106Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert 1959. hardcover. fine. Illustrated with engravings and facsimilies. 6 volumes 8vo blue cloth. Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert 1959. Fine.<br/><br/> Jean-Jacques Pauvert unknown books
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1883France rlcmn<p>France rlcmn Restif de La Bretonne 1734-1806.<strong> Monsieur Nicolas; ou Le cÅ“ur humain deÌvoileÌ. </strong>Paris: I. Liseux 1883 ReÌimprimeÌ sur l' eÌdition unique et rarissime publie par lui-meme en 1796. 14 volumes facsimile bound in 7 volumes. Good tight clean copies overall. <strong>$175.00 Box RRRR Will require additional postage box rrrr</strong></p><p><strong>General Notes: </strong></p><p>Ex-library copy from a governmental library in Vienna. Stamps on several pages in each volume. Catalogue stickers on covers have been neatly removed. Paper has tanned over the years. Very uncommon</p><p>Publisher's device on title page</p><p>With facsimile of title page of v. 1 pt. 1 Paris 1794 in v. 1 and of v. 7 pt. 13 Paris 1797 in v. 13</p><p>"Il a eÌteÌ tireÌ de cette eÌdition deux cent vingt-cinq exemplaires sur papier de Hollande."</p><p>Vol. 13: Mon calendrier.</p><p>Vol. 14: Histoire de mes ouvrages.</p><p>Vols. 1-12 each contain a list of proposed illustrations which were never published.</p><p>Volume I & II some minor fraying to back spine edge and side of leather label on spine. Part of red leather label worn off. Volume I 248 pages; Volume II 234 pages. Pages little browned as in all volumes.</p><p>Volume III & IV some minor fraying to back spine edge and side of leather label on spine. Volume III 231 pages; Volume IV 256 pages. Pages little browned as in all volumes.</p><p>Volume V & VI some minor fraying to back spine edge and side of leather label on spine. Volume V 256 pages; Volume VI 264 pages. Pages little browned as in all volumes.</p><p>Volume VII & VIII. Pages little browned as in all volumes. Volume VII 253 pages; Volume VIII 255 pages.</p><p>Volume IX & X some minor fraying to side of leather label on spine. Pages little browned as in all volumes. Volume IX 256 pages; Volume X 255 pages.</p><p>Volume XI & XII some minor fraying to side of leather label on spine. Part of red leather label worn off Pages little browned as in all volumes. Volume XI 269 pages; Volume XII 259 pages.</p><p>Volume XIII & XIV some minor fraying to side of leather label on spine. Part of red leather label worn off Pages little browned as in all volumes. Volume XIII 320 pages calendar; Volume XIV 227 pages index.</p> I. Liseux, 1883 hardcover
188310189Paris: Isidore Liseux 1883. Half Leather. Very Good binding. Octavos. Originally issued in wrappers this set in marbled paper over boards backed in morocco with corners; all edge gilt; ribbon markers. Original wrappers are not bound in. Only light rubbing to the binding aside from scuff to the top corner of the front boards of Vol. 1; half a dozen of the volumes show some minor spotting to the spine still an attractive set; light and even toning throughout the text; title pages bear an early and small inked "1287"; a few penciled notes otherwise clean. Vols. 2-12 have had a bookplate removed; a different bookplate on the front pastedown of Vol. 1 identifies this set as from the library of Maine bookseller and bibliophile Francis Massey O'Brien. A significant figure he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Bowdoin in 1990. An interesting association copy of a nice edition beautifully bound of this autobiography of the 18th century French novelist who reputedly coined the term "pornographer." Additionally his name became synonymous with foot fetish--retifism. Isidore Liseux unknown
1931mon0001002789John Rodker 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Volumes II-VI Volume I not included Pages clean and bright Binding firm Light wear to edges Some rubbing to spines. John Rodker hardcover
