La Fille de Joye.

£15,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Very Rare. OCLC records copies at the British Library (ex Henry Spencer Ashbee) only in the UK and - not seemingly recorded by OCLC - Harvard, Princeton and Yale in the USA. The first complete translation of Fanny Hill into French was not published until 1887. Rare Book Hub records a single copy of th present edition which appeared in a French auction ten years ago. The imprint “Lampsaque” is false and is an allusion to Lampsacus on the Hellespont where Priapus was venerated. [Bound with]: FOUGERET DE MONTBRON (Louis-Louis). Margot la Ravaudeuse, par Mr. de M**. First Edition. 12mo. 160pp., title-page printed in red and black; lacking the engraved frontispiece. Some very minor spotting and light marking in places but otherwise fine. Hambourg [i.e. Paris?], [no publisher or printer given], 1800 [i.e. 1750?]. OCLC records a number of copies in European libraries but only the BL , Bodley and Manchester in the UK and Berkeley , Library of Congress , Illinois , Michigan and Rochester only in the USA. The first French translation of Cleland’s scandalous novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (better known as “Fanny Hill”) published here with the name of the printer, publisher and translator concealed and with the false imprint “Lampsaque”. The publication of the novel in London lead to the arrest of the author and the book being withdrawn but this French translation shows how quickly the novel gained its notorious reputation across Europe and ensured that the work was still considere

• Year: 1751

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