Scènes galantes et libertines des artistes du XVIIIème siècle

First edition illustrated with 38 hors-texte engravings (10 in color) after Fragonard, Eisen, Boucher, Moreau le jeune, Huet, Schall, one of 275 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only issue after 25 Japan.
Full midnight blue morocco binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots decorated with double gilt compartments enhanced with gilt typographic motifs enriched with red, place, and blue mosaic morocco pieces, publisher and date gilt at foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, three small nicks on joints and bands, triple gilt fillet frame on boards, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, gilt dentelle frame on pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed Stroobants.
Handsome copy perfectly executed in a full mosaic morocco binding by Stroobants.