Les Contemporaines par-gradation: ou avantures des jolies-femmes de l'âge actuel, suivant la gradation des principaux états de la société

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Les Contemporaines par-gradation: ou avantures des jolies-femmes de l'âge actuel, suivant la gradation des principaux états de la société

Illustrated by: Louis Binet (French, 1744–about 1800)
Engraved by: Pierre-Charles Baquoy (1759–1829)
Engraved by: E. A. Giraud l'ainé (French, 18th century)
Engraved by: Antoine Cosme Giraud (French, 1760–after 1796)
Engraved by: Jean Louis Charles Pauquet (French, 1759–about 1824)
Author: Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne (French, 1734–1806)
Publisher: Nicolas Bonaventure Duchesne (French, died in 1765)

1783–85

Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 83 etching and engravings

Dimensions Overall (each vol., depth variable): 17.2 x 10.5 x 5 cm (6 3/4 x 4 1/8 x 1 15/16 in.)

Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent

Accession Number37.1665a-f

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsIllustrated books

"Leïpsick, par Büschel," and Paris: ve. Duchesne, et al., 1783[-1785]

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 876

Description("Leïpsick, par Büschel," and Paris: ve. Duchesne, et al., 1783[-1785]) Octavo, twelve vols. in six; [v. 1] 300 leaves, plus plates; [v. 2] 300 ll., plus pls.; [v. 3] 281 ll., plus pls.; [v. 4] 300 ll., plus pls.; [v. 5] 352 ll., plus pls.; [v. 6] 295 ll., plus pls.; contemporary gilt-stamped marbled brown calf.

Illustrations of contemporary social life.

ProvenanceIsidore Deschamps (bookplate); acquired in 1914, probably at C.F. Libby & Co. auction, New York [Dec. 1914], by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.