Unbound volume in publisher’s wrappers, lettered in red “FELICIA | ou | mes fredaines”, in 29.7 x 23.6 cm purple and blue diaper cloth double-slipcase with a lettered label, 52 leaves folded in half, first and last blank leaves within the wrappers, pagination: [8] 1-186 [2] [4] (200 pages total); illustrated with 20 coloured etchings after watercolours by Louis Icart (signed), plates within collation, 8 b/w tail-pieces and coloured initials; the edition enriched with an original watercolour, an etched copperplate, and two suites of plates, one in black and one in sanguine. Edition printed on thick wove paper, margins untrimmed.
Title-page (purple and black): ANDRÉA DE NERCIAT | Félicia | ou | Mes fredaines | ILLUSTRÉ | DE VINGT EAUX-FORTES ORIGINALES EN COULEURS | PAR | LOUIS ICART | GEORGES GUILLOT, ÉDITEUR | 7, RUE PERRONET | PARIS ||
Limitation: a print run of 500 copies numbered 1 to 500 plus 30 copies “exemplaires d’artiste, numbered I to XXX, of which this is number I.
Catalogue raisonné:William R. Holland (1998): pp. 152-164.
Ref.: [LIB-2785.2021] William R. Holland. Louis Icart: Erotica (A Schiffer book for collectors). — Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., © 1998.
Printed by Joseph Zichieri (text) and Manuel Robbe (etchings).
Contributors:
André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat (French, 1739 – 1800) – author.
Louis Icart (French, 1888 – 1950) – artist.
Solange et Georges Guillot, éditeurs – publisher (7, rue Perronet, Paris)
Joseph Zichieri (Grench, mid-20th century) – printer.
Ateliers en taille-douce de Manuel Robbe (French, 1872 – 1936) – engraver/printer.
Watercolour:
Copperplate:
