Description: One volume in grey-blue French flapped wrapper, 24 x 16.7 cm, collated 8vo, with black and red lettering to front cover, printed on watermarked thick wove paper Alfax Navarre, margins untrimmed, some pages uncut, illustrated with 12 aquatint plates signed Le Loup.
Front wrapper and title (red and black): RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE | L’ANTI-JUSTINE | OU | LES DÉLICES DE L’ AMOUR | Nouvelle édition entièrement revue et corrigée, | établie pour la première fois sur le texte original de 1798. | PRÉCÉDÉE D’UNE NOTICE BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE | par HELPEY | bibliographe poitevin | {device} | ILE SAINT-LOUIS | DE L’IMPRIMERIE DE Monsieur Nicolas.
Limitation: Printed 350 copies, numbered 1-350, on alfax paper; this copy is № 256.
Collation: 1-158 166, incl. the 1st and last leaves within the wrappers, total 126 leaves plus 12 plates extraneous to collation.
Pagination: [4 blank] [1-4] 5-243 [244 blank] [4 blank], total 252 pages, ils.
Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970) № 1025, p. 45.
Ref.: Danson Erotica Collection at Trinity College, Oxford – KK.6.33.
Contributors:
Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne (French, 1734 – 1806) – author.
Louis Perceau [Helpey] (French, 1883 – 1942) – author.
Maurice Henri Hector Duflou (French, 1885 – 1951) – publisher.
The artist – Le Loup – unidentified.
