Title page: RECUEIL | DE CONTES | ET | DE POEMES, | PAR M. D**. | CI-DEVANT MOUSQUETAIRE. | TROSIÉME ÉDITION | AUGUMENTÉE | DE L’HERMITAGE DE BEAUVAIS. | [device] | A LA HAYE, | Et se trouve à Paris, | Chez Delalain, Libraire, rue de la Comédie | Française. | — | M. D. CC. LXX.
IRZA | ET MARSIS , | POËME, includes: L’isle merveilleuse, Poëme, Chant 1re et Chant 2nd, Invocation a La Fontaine, and Alphonse, Conte – Cohen and De Ricci (#317) describe 2nd edition by the same publisher, 1769, 77 p., with similar illustrations after Charles Eisen: (1) engraved title by Louis Claude Legrand (2) L’Isle 1er: Frontispiece by Joseph de Longueil, (3) headpiece and (4) tailpiece by Emmanuel de Ghendt, and (5) L’Isle 2nd: Frontispiece by Jean Massard, (6) headpiece by Emmanuel de Ghendt + (7) tailpiece unsigned.
Les Cerises et la Méprise, Contes en vers – Cohen and De Ricci (#311) also describe the 2nd edition of 1769, with the same (8) frontispiece by De Longueil after Eisen.
Sélim et Sélima, Poeme imité de l’allemand; L’hermitage de beauvais, Conte –Cohen and De Ricci (#322) describe edition of 1769 by Sébastien Jorry, with the same (9) frontispiece by Emmanuel de Ghendt after Eisen.
Size: 18.6 x 12.3 cm, small 8vo.
Binding: polished, multi-coloured stained calf with gilt triple fillet border to boards; gilt floral arabesque and gilt lettering to flat spine: “Oeuvres de Dorat | Contes”; all edges gilt; blue-and-white marbled endpapers.
Pagination: ffl, [2] IRZA ET MARSIS engraved half-title / blank, [1-2] – RECUEIL title page / blank, 3-8 (avis sur cette édition); [1 – L’Isle…] 2-184, bfl; Illustrations (copperplate engravings): 5 plates, 2 headpieces and 2 tailpieces.
Collation: Octavo; a8 (title and avis sur cette édition); A-L8, M4.
Author of the text: Claude Joseph Dorat, (French, 1734 – 1780)
Artist: Charles-Dominique-JosephEisen (French, 1720 – 1778)
Engravers:
Emmanuel Jean Nepomucène de Ghendt (French, 1738 – 1815)
Louis Claude Legrand (French, 1723 – 1807)
Joseph de Longueil (French, 1730 – 1792)
Jean Massard (French, 1740 – 1822)
