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Les Récréations de la toilette, 1775

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Les Récréations de la toilette. Histoires, anecdotes, avantures amusantes & intéressantes, pour servir d'amusemens aux jeunes dames. 

Paris, s.n., 1775.

Two 12mo (167x98 mm), (4)-431 pages / 421-(2) pages.  binding : Contemporary full sheep, gilt flat spines. Joints splitting on volume I. Large waterstain on volume II. 

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First edition.
Collection of short stories which is part of the crucible of the sentimental novel, identified by Clapp as such in his short bibliography of the novel in the eighteenth century.

references: Gay [III, 943], John M. Clapp ["An Eighteenth-Century Attempt at a Critical View of the Novel", n°42].

provenance: Bookplate from Christina Graffin von Abensperg (teared up on volume II).

Price : 250 €

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