RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE (Nicolas Edme). Mes Amours à vingt ans - Lot 320

RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE (Nicolas Edme). Mes Amours à vingt ans. Paris, Éditions du Moustié, s. d. [1947]. 3 volumes (one with original drawings) in-8° leaves, in publisher's common cover, folder and slipcase. 24 color plates and ornamental woodcuts by Jacques TOURNEBROCHE. Printed in an edition of 1,640 numbered copies and a few contributor's copies, this one (no. 4), ONE OF THE FOUR HEAD COPS on vélin du Marais pur fil including SIX ORIGINAL DRAWINGS used to illustrate the work (frontispiece, pp. 15, 65 and 109 of vol. I, & pp. 77 and 112 of vol. II) and four additional suites of illustrations, one in black and one in bistre. Spines of folders faded. Provenance: French private collection Erotica Monsieur X Expert: Cabinet REVEL