Gentil-Bernard Petits Poemes Erotiques L'Art d'Aimer French Leather Antique 1761

French-language poetry collection featuring Gentil-Bernard’s L’Art d’aimer and other eighteenth-century verse, with an introduction and notes by F. de Donville. Published in Paris by Garnier Frères, this copy has a leather spine with raised bands, gilt decoration, contrasting title labels, and marbled boards and endpapers.

Good antiquarian condition, with rubbing to the leather and board edges, age toning, and scattered foxing. Binding is reported firm, with pages secure. Please examine the photographs for the condition of the covers, spine, and text.

- Title: Petits poèmes érotiques du XVIIIe siècle — L’Art d’aimer
- Featured author: Pierre-Joseph Bernard, known as called Gentil-Bernard by Voltaire for the measured grace of his discreetly erotic verses
- Introduction and notes: F. de Donville
- Publisher: Garnier Frères, Paris, France
- Language: French
- Binding: leather spine with marbled boards and endpapers
- Pagination: 376 numbered pages; preliminary pages to be checked
- Publication date: unconfirmed; later Garnier edition
- Size: approximately 7⅛ × 4¾ inches / 18.1 × 12.1 cm
- Weight: approximately 15 oz / 425 g
- SKU: 6521.2