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A famous and very rare Dutch 18th c. eroticon
Historische print- en dicht-Tafereelen, van Jan Baptist Girard, en juffrou Maria Catharina Cadière.
N. pl. [The Hague, Henri Scheurleer?], 1735. 4to (240 x 187 mm). 24 p. prelims and 32 one side printed folded leaves, with on the left side of the opening the engraving and on the right side the printed accompanying text.
With 32 large etched plates.
Half calf. Simply gold tooled spine with 5 raised bands and red title label.
This book in verse, extremely rare according to Cohen and Gay, describes the sins of the infamous Father Girard who was tried in 1730 for the seduction of Marie Cadière and her subsequent abortion. In this book the story is told in a suggestive manner that probably furthered its sale.
The book was issued (simultaneously?) in French with letterpress title: Histoire du pere Jean Baptiste Girard? et de la damoiselle Marie Caterine Cadière, but without the accompanying anti-Catholic verses and prose introduction of the present translation into in Dutch.
The sinful scenes are depicted in somewhat coarse etchings. On some plates devils are shown encouraging the sinner. On one of them an angel flees, while a devil takes over.
This notorious and historic scandal inspired Fielding?s play The debauchees, 1732, and the classic erotic novel Thérèse Philosophe. When the French parliament finally decided that Father Girard was not guilty, Voltaire wrote: ?Père Girard rempli de flamme, d?une fille a fait une femme, Mais le Parlement plus habille, d?une femme a fait une fille?.
In his Index Librorum Prohibitorum Henry Spencer Ashbee writes about this book: ?the following very remarkable volume which demands a more special notice ...; there are 32 line engravings, bold and effective in drawing, though rough in execution, all numbered. Nos. 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 23 and either obscene or very free?.
Antiquarian bookseller Bas Hesselink (FORUM) describes this copy in an article for the 2022 jubilee book Eenmaal, andermaal! [Going once, going twice] of the Dutch Bibliophile Society as ?famous and very rare? on p. 385.
-Provenance: 1) With the ex libris of W.J. Six. Sold at auction at Van Stockum in 1925, and bought by 2) Scheepers. Sold at auction by Beijers in 1947 and bought by 3) Bob Luza (His round ex libris on upper paste down).
-Literature: De Backer-Sommervogel XI, 1724; Bilderlexicon II, 448; Gay-Lemonnyer II, 603 ('Très rare'); Hayn-Gotendorf III, 405; Kearney, The private case 901; Pisanus Fraxi II, 234; Waller 1374.
-Condition: Spine head a bit damaged; Binding a bit rubbed; One small stain in plate 25; Else a very fine copy of this rare eroticum with a good provenance.
With 32 large etched plates.
Half calf. Simply gold tooled spine with 5 raised bands and red title label.
This book in verse, extremely rare according to Cohen and Gay, describes the sins of the infamous Father Girard who was tried in 1730 for the seduction of Marie Cadière and her subsequent abortion. In this book the story is told in a suggestive manner that probably furthered its sale.
The book was issued (simultaneously?) in French with letterpress title: Histoire du pere Jean Baptiste Girard? et de la damoiselle Marie Caterine Cadière, but without the accompanying anti-Catholic verses and prose introduction of the present translation into in Dutch.
The sinful scenes are depicted in somewhat coarse etchings. On some plates devils are shown encouraging the sinner. On one of them an angel flees, while a devil takes over.
This notorious and historic scandal inspired Fielding?s play The debauchees, 1732, and the classic erotic novel Thérèse Philosophe. When the French parliament finally decided that Father Girard was not guilty, Voltaire wrote: ?Père Girard rempli de flamme, d?une fille a fait une femme, Mais le Parlement plus habille, d?une femme a fait une fille?.
In his Index Librorum Prohibitorum Henry Spencer Ashbee writes about this book: ?the following very remarkable volume which demands a more special notice ...; there are 32 line engravings, bold and effective in drawing, though rough in execution, all numbered. Nos. 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 23 and either obscene or very free?.
Antiquarian bookseller Bas Hesselink (FORUM) describes this copy in an article for the 2022 jubilee book Eenmaal, andermaal! [Going once, going twice] of the Dutch Bibliophile Society as ?famous and very rare? on p. 385.
-Provenance: 1) With the ex libris of W.J. Six. Sold at auction at Van Stockum in 1925, and bought by 2) Scheepers. Sold at auction by Beijers in 1947 and bought by 3) Bob Luza (His round ex libris on upper paste down).
-Literature: De Backer-Sommervogel XI, 1724; Bilderlexicon II, 448; Gay-Lemonnyer II, 603 ('Très rare'); Hayn-Gotendorf III, 405; Kearney, The private case 901; Pisanus Fraxi II, 234; Waller 1374.
-Condition: Spine head a bit damaged; Binding a bit rubbed; One small stain in plate 25; Else a very fine copy of this rare eroticum with a good provenance.
€ 5.800
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