75/2494 [Erotica]. Anonymous (2nd half 18th cent.). (Album with copied manuscript poems, mounted engravings and two manuscript leaves). N.pl. (France), dated between "25 Avril 1759" and "[...] 7bre 1759", (30) manuscript pages in pen and ink numb. "13-(41)" [copied poems] and (2) manuscript pages in pen and ink [draft of letter?], (28) leaves w. (5) mounted engr. textpages and 76 mounted engr. plates, (16) blank leaves, contemp. cat's paw calf w. gilt spine, 4to.

- The first 6 leaves of the album were cut out.

= Interesting album: the poems are copied from various sources, i.a. the Mercure de France, Molière, Alexis Piron, De Grécourt, Chaulieu and Horace. The engr. textleaves and engravings (often reverse copies) are from i.a. M.J. SEDAINE, Le tentation de Saint Antoine (±1785), C. GERVAISE DE LATOUCHE, Memoires de Saturnin (1788) and F.-F.F. NOGARET, LAretin Français (1787). Finally the 2 manuscript leaves are probably a draft for a letter "a mon frère" and show the mind of a somewhat misogynist writer. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CX.