Anon

1791 · Best.-Nr. 98865 — Sur L'Edition Cazin - Paris 1791. Londres. 1886. Londres. 1886. First edition thus. Limited to 150 copies. Printed by S. Pointer 180-182 High Holborn London Two volumes with continuous pagination bound in one. 508 pages. Both title pages present and have an engraved vignette to each the first volume has a masturbating faun. Handsomely bound in full vellum gilt red lettering piece slightly rubbed. prelims lightly foxed pages browned otherwise a very clean and sound copy. Nerciat 1739–1800 was a soldier poet composer playwright and novelist and a spy under both the Ancien Régime and the Republic. He travelled to countries throughout Europe during the course of his busy sometimes turbulent career and spent most of the last two years of his life in prison after being arrested by French forces in Italy in 1798 probably for his activities as a double agent. He is mostly remembered today for his libertine writings including Félicia ou mes frédaines Félicia or My Frolics in 1775 Le diable au corps Devil in the Flesh in 1789 and Les Aphrodites. hardcover