Récréations Morales et Amusantes, à l'usage des jeunnes Demoiselles qui entrent dans le monde.
by Choiseul-[Meuse]. [Felicite de, Comtess]
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About This Item
Paris: à la Librarie d'Education 1817 Second edition, revised, corrected, and updated with six new recreations and six new illustrations. The first edition, published in 1810, is also scarce. Contemporary calf with a gilt-tooled spine and gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. Edges sprinkled red. Octavo. Engraved frontispiece; five engraved plates. Binding extremities lightly rubbed with a few small chips to boards and a minor crack to crown of spine. Light foxing to text and plates. The occasional small chip or stain. Slight creasing to pp. 105-110, touching text, but not affecting legibility. A very good, tight copy of a scarce book. Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse (ca. 1770-1824) is best know as the author of Julie, ou j'ai sajuve ma Rose (1807), which has been called the first erotic novel to have been written by a woman. She wrote many other erotic works, and three of them were censored during the French Revolution. The present work is a collection of moral stories for girls between the ages of twelve and fifteen, which the author felt was a crucial time in their development. The purpose of such a work is to teach her audience to understand their adolescent passions and to keep them under control.
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- Bookseller
- Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16313
- Title
- Récréations Morales et Amusantes, à l'usage des jeunnes Demoiselles qui entrent dans le monde.
- Author
- Choiseul-[Meuse]. [Felicite de, Comtess]
- Format/Binding
- Contemporary calf with a gilt-tooled spine and gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. Edges sprinkled red
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition, revised, corrected, and updated with six new rec
- Publisher
- à la Librarie d'Education
- Place of Publication
- Paris:
- Date Published
- 1817
- Pages
- 353 pp
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
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