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Dorat (Claude Joseph) Les Baisers, 1770

Dorat (Claude Joseph) Les Baisers, précédés du Mois de Mai, poëme,

first edition, first issue, printed in red and black, engraved additional pictorial title, printed title in red and black with vignette, frontispiece (bound after preliminaries), 22 vignettes and 22 tail-pieces all after Eisen, with an added engraved portrait of Dorat by Dupin bound in at beginning bound with Supplément a l'édition des baisers...Imitations de poëtes latins, sumptuous 19th century dark blue crushed morocco by Lortic, elaborately gilt covers and spine in compartments, rich inner gilt dentelles, very slightly rubbed at extremities, g.e., housed in a modern cloth drop-back box, [Cohen-de Ricci 308-311; Ray, French, 31], 8vo, The Hague & Paris, Chez Lambert et Delalain, 1770.

***A handsome copy of this beautifully engraved work. "This triumph of miniature art is the apotheosis of the vignette" (Ray)..