[DU BUISSON]. Le Tableau de la volupté ou les quatre parties - Lot 47

[DU BUISSON]. Le Tableau de la volupté ou les quatre parties du jour. Poem in free verse. À Cythère, Au Temple du Plaisir, 1771, in-8°, blue morocco, gilded fillets around the boards, ornate ribbed spine, interior gilded roulette, gilded edges (Cuzin). Collation: frontispiece, 68 pp. eds. [1-2-3]-68, 4 fig. Illustrated first edition of the first work by a writer who lived for a time in Martinique and ended his life on the scaffold. "One of the most graceful works due to the association of Eisen and de Longueil." (Cohen, I, 330) A frontispiece, 4 vignettes, 4 culs-de-lampe and 4 figures engraved by de Longueil after Eisen. Copy of art historian Roger Portalis (1841-1912), author of Les Dessinateurs d'illustrations au dix-huitième siècle. It is enriched by an extremely rare separate edition of the head and tailpieces. Corners rubbed and a few scuffs and nail marks on boards. Dimensions: 189 x 123 mm. Provenances: Roger Portalis, with his bookplate. Not mentioned in the catalog of his 1889 sale; Fernand J. Nyssen, with his bookplate.