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Freedom of the Press 81 MIRABEAU, Honoré-Gabriel Riquetti. Sur la Liberté de la Presse, imité de l’Anglois, de Milton. Londres, 1788. £450 8vo, pp. 66; entirely uncut in the original wrappers; corners frayed, and edges a little dust-soiled; faint damp-stain to lower corner of Wrst two leaves. First edition of Mirabeau’s pamphlet on the freedom of the press, based on and in the tradition of Milton’s Areopagitica: A speech for the liberty of unlicens’d printing. Published on the eve of the French Revolution, this pamphlet came at the height of a campaign for greater freedom of the press sparked oV by Malesherbes, the former directeur de la librairie who did much to soften censorship of books. Cioranescu 45152; for a detailed discussion see R. Darnton & D. Roche, Revolution in Print, the Press in France 1775–1800, 1989, pp. 50–66. The Economics of Prostitution 82 [MOET, Jean-Pierre.] Code de Cythère, ou Lit de justice d’Amour. Erotopolis, chez le Dieu Harpocrates, à l’Enseigne de la Nuit 7746, [i.e. Paris, 1746]. [Bound with:] [LOUBAYSSIN DE LAMARCA, Francisco.] Histoire des Cocus. La Haye [Paris], 1746. £2000 Two works in one volume, 12mo, pp. [viii], lx, 81, [3] blank; 183, [1] blank; title vignette, typographic headpieces; contemporary cats-paw calf, spine decoratively gilt; two-gilt-lettered spine labels; a Wne copy with blind-stamped monogram to title, reading CG with the motto ‘toujours prêt’. An interesting volume combining two clandestine eighteenth century publications, one a spoof proposal for the economic running of prostitution in Paris, the second a ‘roman à cornes’, translated from the Spanish. I. First edition, rare, of this brilliant solution to the problem of prostitution, in fact a facetious argument for the position that ‘the world’s oldest profession’ is not a problem at all, but a Wnancial asset to the state. With the help of an elaborate display of proWt and loss accounting, Moet shows how, after nationalisation, prostitution beneWts society and enriches the nation. The Code de Cythère itself consists of forty-one articles, regulating prostitution in minute detail, in the best tradition of the Ancien Régime bureaucracy. The work concludes with the Wnal balance sheet for the staterun prostitution service, where prostitutes are carefully classiWed and assigned a sliding scale of maintenance costs. The income generated, again on a sliding scale, is oVset against rent, clothing, administrative and medical costs. Even taking into account extraneous expenses such as hairdressing and cosmetics, and printing costs for receipts and ‘billets doux’, the proWt generated for the state is impressive. The Code de Cythère was reprinted in susanne schulz-falster rare books
1776 as an appendix to Restif de la Bretonne’s Le Pornographe ou la Prostitution réformé. Jean-Pierre Moet (1721–1806), a proliWc writer, is best known for the translation of John Hill’s Lucina sine concubitu. II. Based on the Spanish novel Enganos deste siglo (Wrst published in Paris 1615) this French imitation with its more direct title History of the Cuckolds inspired the Marquis de Paulmy to note in his copy that a mere 183 pages were ‘bien peu pour un sujet si étendu’. Earlier French versions had appeared under the more literal title Les abus du monde (Paris 1618) and Les Tromperies de ce siècle (Paris 1639). The similarity of the ornaments clearly indicates that the two works were printed at the same press. I. Barbier I, 622; Brunet, Imprimeurs imaginaries, p. 63; Cioranescu 45746; Conlon 46, 719; Gay-Lemmonyer I, 606; OCLC and RLIN list just two copies, at UCLA and the University of Chicago; II. Gay-Lemmonyer II, 539; Jones, List of French Prose Fiction, p. 92; see Palau 142661. Entirely Engraved 83 [MOREAU, Pierre.] Les Sainctes Prières de l’âme chrestienne escrites et gravées après le naturel de la plume, par P. Moreau Me Escriuain Juré à Paris. Paris, chez l’autheur, ou au Palais, à la Vérité, 1644. £2400 12mo, ll. [106]; engraved throughout, each plate with engraved border; paper lightly browned; contemporary Jansenist binding of red morocco, spine discreetly labelled in gilt, gilt dentelles, a.e.g.; small repair to upper board; an attractive copy. catalogue fourteen
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