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Erotic music, large paper copy on thick "papier bleuté"
EROTICA- Sedaine de Sarcy, Michel-Jean a tentation de S. Antoine, ornée de figures et de musique.[with:] [Lalleman, Pierre]. Le Pot-pourri de Loth. A Londres [Paris, Cazin], 1781. 8vo (196 x 127 mm). [I],10; [II],10,[1] leaves.

Two engraved frontispieces, 16 marvellous plates (5 uncensored) by F.R. Elluin after A. Borel and 20 plates engraved music. Text printed within a typographical border.

Tree marbled brown sheep, gold tooled. On the covers a decorative border. Flat spine, stained dark, richly gilt. Board edges with a single fillet. Head bands of blue and white silk. Green silk ribbon marker. Marbled end leaves.
First edition, with uncencored plates. Large paper copy text printed on thick "papier bleuté", music and plates on white paper. These two erotical librettos, paraphrasing existing airs and songs and practically always bound together. They are of additional interest because of the high quality of the engravings, of which five in this edition are 'découvertes'. Viollet-le-duc reminds us of the necessity to keep this kind of book 'behind lock and key.'

Michel Jean Sedaine (1719-1797) was a French poet and playwright whose forte was light opera. He was widely popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, but few of his works are performed today.

Gay, who describes this book as ?très rare?, attributes the Pot Pourri to Pierre Lallemand instead of Antoine A.H. Poinsinet, who is usually considered to be the author.

-Literature: Dutel, A-1049 (but with 20 p. engraved music (8 & 12 p.); Barbier III, 961 (ed. 1782) and IV, 677; Bilderlexicon II, 730 and 801; Cohen-Ricci 948; Gay-Lemonnyer III, 1188-89.

-Condition: In every sense a very desirable copy.
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