(4vol) The Amours of The Chevalier de Faublas, Founded on Historical Facts, Interspersed with Most RemarkableNarratives. A Literal Unexpurgated Translation from the Paris edition of 1821. With NumerousBeautiful Engravings Etched by Louis Monzies From Drawings by Paul Avril. Limited "Astral" Edition #5/52

The Amours of The Chevalier de Faublas, Founded on Historical Facts, Interspersed with Most Remarkable Narratives. A Literal Unexpurgated Translation from the Paris edition of 1821. With Numerous Beautiful Engravings Etched by Louis Monzies From Drawings by Paul Avril. Limited "Astral" Edition #5/52. 4 volumes.

Author: Couvray, John Baptiste Louvet de

8vo.(5.5" x 8") Four Volumes. Couvray, John Baptiste Louvet de. London: Privately Printed for Societe des Bibliophiles. Three quarter purple leather with generous corners, single gilt rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with four gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title to gilt framed second compartment, gilt author/vol# to gilt framed third, gilt edition at foot. Fancy gilt border with gilt flower device and inlaid red petals to fourth compartment. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others rough cut. Bookplates and library plates to pastedown and first free flyleaf of the Blumhaven Library. Limited "Astral" Edition # 5/52. Lettered tissue guarded plates in two states. Minor edgewear, some corners rubbed with minor loss, spines sunned to a pleasing brown. Volumes I and III with small chip to head of spine (see pics).

Attestation page states: "Astral Edition. The Astral Edition is Limited to Fifty Two Numbered Copies of Which This is No. 5"

From web: This is considered a so-called “libertine” novel. It dwells mainly on the sexual escapades of its hero, a sort of amiable young libertine, and on the corrupted morals of eighteenth-century France. At the start of this novel the young Chevalier de Faublas attends a party dressed as a woman and is knowingly seduced by the lady of the house (‘I receive with equal astonishment and pleasure a charming lesson, which I repeated more than once’) Oxford Comp. to French Literature says it is “typical of many frivolous, licentious novels of its time, and still mentioned. Faublas, the amiable hero, is the victim of his own charms. His amorous adventures, recounted with a certain lively force, begin with his entry into society at the age of sixteen. He loves several women by the way and three in particular. A jealous husband and a despairing suicide reduce the three to one. The novel ends on a moral note: Faublas , who had happened to settle down with his remaining love, is haunted by the avenging phantoms of the other two and goes mad.” Artist Paul Avril

From Wiki: Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray (12 June 1760 – 25 August 1797) was a French novelist, playwright and journalist. Born in Paris as the son of a stationer, Louvet became a bookseller's clerk, and first attracted attention with the first part of his novel Les Amours du chevalier de Faublas (Paris, 1787; English translation illustrated by etchings by Louis Monzies in 1898); it was followed in 1788 by Six semaines de la vie du chevalier de Faublas and in 1790 by La Fin des amours du chevalier de Faublas. The heroine, Lodoiska, was based on the wife of a jeweller in the Palais Royal, with whom Louvet had an affair. She divorced her husband in 1792 and married Louvet in 1793. His second novel, Émilie de Varmont (1791), was intended to prove the utility and necessity of divorce and of the marriage of priests, questions raised by the French Revolution; all his works tended to advocate revolutionary ideals.

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