LACLOS, Choderlos de - Lot 79

Lot n° 79
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LACLOS, Choderlos de - Lot 79
LACLOS, Choderlos de Les liaisons dangereuses ou lettres recueillies dans une Société et publiée pour l'instruction de quelques autres par M.C. de L. A Amsterdam et se trouve à Paris, chez Durand Neveu, 1782. 4 parts in 2 volumes in-12 (170 x 95mm) of 248 pp; 242 pp; 231 pp; 257 pp. Marbled calf, spines decorated with gilt fleurons, title and greeen and red morocco, gold fillet on the edges, marbled edges (period binding). Genuine ORIGINAL EDITION of the A edition according to Max Brun's classification ("Contribution bibliographique à l'étude des éditions des Liaisons dangereuses portant le millésime 1782", in Bulletin du bibliophile, 1958). A phenomenal publishing success against a background of scandal, the epistolary novel by Choderlos de Laclos is one of the masterpieces of the French language. The audacity of Dangerous Liaisons consists "neither in the easy debauchery with the raw language, nor in the perversity in the first degree or the pleasure to make the evil proper to Sade, but in the art to say it or rather to write it for an admiring and a little vexed connoisseur, placed in position of voyeur as the reader." (Laurent Versini, En français dans le texte, nº 174). A superb copy preserved in its first binding. Discreet restoration to the headpieces Joints hardly rubbed. Ex-libris of the Count Corbeau de Vaulserre with his motto "Nil nisi Virtute".
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