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Mademoiselle Dionis Dusejour; Cohin, C. N. (Designer) : The Origin of the Graces; Illustrated with the Original Copperplate Engravings After the Designs of C. N. Cochin

Vizetelly & Co., London, England

Limited Edition. No. 112 of 800 copies. Brown 3/4 leather binding with beige paper-covered boards. Gilt decorations and lettering on spine. Gilt decorative lines on boards. Five raised bands. No date, circa 1888. 7" x 9 3/4." Sixty-three pages, complete. Six red (sanguine) and white engraved plates, complete. Includes two titles pages, the main title and an alternate illustrated title facing the frontispiece. Two additional pages each in front and back advertise other books. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning and a small bit of offsetting on edges of endpapers. Covers are very clean and intact except for slight wear to corners, edges, and front and back outer joints. Binding is tight. A Very Good copy. A collection of five poems or cantos about Venus and the Graces by an enigmatic author, Mademoiselle Dionis Dusejour (also, Du Sejour). The cantos are modeled after Greek pastorals. An introduction gives a brief biography of Charles-Nicholas Cochin (1715-1790), a French engraver, designer, author, and art critic whose designs are the basis of the engravings contained in this edition. Cochin gained much prominence in his career for his artistic talent and became the court engraver for King Louis XV. He later became the keeper of the king's drawings and the king's administrator of the arts. Cochin was considered an authority on matters of artistic taste in eighteenth-century France. Front colophon: "Of the present volume there have been printed: 150 Copies, with two sets of the Plates (in black and sanguine) on Japanese paper; 50 of these Copies are designed for the United States, and the remainder are numbered 1 to 100; 1100 Copies, with a single set of Plates, on hand-made paper, 300 of these Copies being for the United States, and the remainder being numbered 1 to 800; No. 112.". Illustr.: Cochin, C. N. (Designer). Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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