Zelis au bain : poëme en quatre chants.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pezay, Alexandre-Frédéric-Jacques Masson, marquis de, 1741-1777

Contributor:

Eisen, Charles, 1720-1778.

Aliamet, Jacques, 1726-1788

Le Mire, Noël, 1724-1801

Longueil, Joseph de, 1730-1792

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

French

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Pezay, Alexandre Frédéric Jacques de Masson, marquis de, 1741-1777 (autograph) (RBC copy)

Leschenault du Villard (stamp) (RBC copy)

Lescheneault fils Villars (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

1 unnumbered page, 4-43 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

A Geneve : [publisher not identified], [1763?]

Notes:

Written by Alexandre Frédéric Jacques de Masson, marquis de Pezay. Cf. Gay.

Imprint date from engraved title leaf, signed and dated: Ch. Eisen. jnv N. Le Mire. sculp 1763.

Signatures: A⁴(-A1) B-E⁴ F².

Engraved plates: title leaf and four illustrations by Charles Eisen, engraved by Jacques Aliamet, Noël Le Mire, and Joseph de Longueil.

Engraved head- and tail-pieces.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

RBC copy bound with: Pezay, Alexandre Frédéric Jacques de Masson.

RBC copy has paper label with ms. shelf-mark ("2147") affixed to front pastedown. La nouvelle Zélis au bain. A Geneve : [s.n.] ; Et se trouve à Paris : chez Merlin, libraire ..., MDCCLXVIII [1768].

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2016 from Amanda Hall Rare Books.

RBC copy has stamp ("M. Leschenault du Villard") and blue paper bookplate ("Leschenault fils Villars.") on front pastedown.

RBC copy: "[A]ll four [illustrative] plates ... are signed by the author on the verso, as well as the engraved title page, indicating the first state. The plate to the third part is in the earliest state, before letters."--Bookseller's description.

RBC copy bound in full contemporary mottled calf; boards triple ruled in gold with a gold acorn stamped in each corner; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped brown morocco spine label ("ZELIS AU BAIN"); marbled endpapers; all edges stippled red; green silk marker.

Cited in:

Gay, J. Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l'amour, aux femmes, au mariage, et des livres facétieux pantagruéliques, scatologiques, satyriques, etc. (4. éd.), III, col. 1400

OCLC:

266007198