Author: RETIF de la BRETONNE, N.-E.
Title: L'Anti-Justine ou les délices d'amour. Nouvelle édition sans suppressions conforme à celle originale de 1798.
Description: Amsterdam, De Kiek, no date [= France, Belgium?, second half nineteenth century?]. 8vo in-4. (15, 4x9, 6cm). [xii], 114-166 pp. Red half calf binding, spine gilt with raised bands, gilt edge. (WITHOUT the loose plates) ¶ "Although Restif's 200-plus works consistently celebrate sex, L'Anti-Justine was more probably his sole contribution to hard-core erotica. ... The novel was intended as a massive counterblast to the works of Marquis de Sade ... The book was originally to run to some seven parts, which would have totalled around 1.400 pages, but Restif finished only two and the book ends very abruptly ... What there was of the book was banned in 1803." (J. Green, N.J. Karolides, Encyclopedia of Censorship p.17). ¶ Avec 5 ou 6 gravures libres. Publiée entre 1865 et 1880. (Pia II.65/66?) ¶ Reprint of the 1798 edition; 6 figs. libres. (Rose No.3876)

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