Nicolas-Edme RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE
Le pornographe, ou idées d'un honnête-homme sur un projet de règlement pour les prostituées
Chez Jean Nourse • Gosse junior|A Londres& [London] • & à La Haie [The Hague] • (La Haye) [The Hague] 1770|12 x 19 cm|relié
Second edition from the same publisher, the first having been published the year before in 1769. We know that the publisher was actually Delalain and that it was printed in Paris, but the publisher used a false address to evade censorship.
Contemporary brown calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with acorn tools. Red morocco title label. Upper joint narrowly split at head. Handsome copy.
Le pornographe is a manifesto for the regulation of prostitution. The author is the inventor of the neologism that combines two Greek roots and literally means: one who writes about prostitutes. This project for regulating prostitutes has the originality of having a literary form, Restif using lette
Contemporary brown calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with acorn tools. Red morocco title label. Upper joint narrowly split at head. Handsome copy.
Le pornographe is a manifesto for the regulation of prostitution. The author is the inventor of the neologism that combines two Greek roots and literally means: one who writes about prostitutes. This project for regulating prostitutes has the originality of having a literary form, Restif using lette
€1,200