SPLENDIDLY BOUND SET, LIMITED TO ONE HUNDRED COPIES

LOUVET DE COUVRAY, John-Baptiste. The Amours of the Chevalier de Faublas. London: Societe des Bibliophiles, 1848. Four volumes. Octavo, raised bands, elaborately gilt- and inlay- decorated purple morocco boards and spines, gilt-decorated dentelles, brown morocco doublures with gilt- and inlay- armorial centerpiece, watered silk endpapers, all edges gilt. $1100.

1848 limited edition, privately printed and beautifully bound for the Societe des Bibliophiles. Number 19 of 100 on "Old English, Spartan" paper, with numerous engraved plates.

Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray, a revolutionary and member of the Convention nationale, originally published the first part of his only novel, the romance Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas, in 1789. According to the preface, "The present translation was undertaken in consequence of a great demand arising for the work… It affords an excellent picture of French manners, previously to, and at the period of, the revolution; and however minutely it may describe the foibles and vices of our species, it, at the same time, places in a most elevated point of view all those virtues which are an honor to our nature."

Elegantly bound with inlaid red morocco fleur-de-lis patterns, doublures with red and black inlaid armorial centerpiece, and watered silk endpapers. A beautiful set.