ENGRAVED EROTIC ALMANACK
[ALMANACK.]
Les perfidies supposées ou les médisances pardonables. Almanach orné des jolies gravures.
Paris, Janet, ‘Successeur du Sr Jubert’, 1800.
24mo, pp. [vi], 12, [24], 13–24, [2]; wanting calendar for May–August (2 ff.), engraved title and a further 12 engraved plates, folding letterpress calendar for 1800 with woodcut signs of the zodiac at head bound in; first and final gatherings very clean and bright; else very good in contemporary white sheep, front board painted with a design of hearts and garlands against a blue-grey ground, rear board depicting Cupid atop a cloud, firing an arrow against a blue-grey ground, within a border blocked in gilt with painted details, spine gilt and painted in compartments, edges gilt, gilt brocade endpapers; small repair to headcap, painted decorations slightly rubbed.
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Les perfidies supposées ou les médisances pardonables. Almanach orné des jolies gravures.
A seemingly unrecorded almanack for 1800, issued by the prolific publisher of almanacks Pierre-étienne Janet (1746–1830), with suggestive engravings accompanied by explanatory poems, songs, and music, our copy in a handsome binding of contemporary painted white sheep with designs of hearts, garlands, and Cupid firing an arrow.
The engravings, by Dorgez (fl. 1780-1814), depict, inter alia, a putto revealing a man in bed with a lover, whilst his enraged wife approaches with baton in hand; the legs of a woman and her lover sticking out from a door as her husband, blindfolded, takes part in a game of Blind Man’s Buff; a woman extending a makeshift ladder made of bedsheets from her balcony watching in horror as the ladder tears and her lover is thrown to the ground; and a disgruntled husband, in his nightclothes, emptying a chamber pot onto the head of his wife’s lover, who is scaling a ladder to her window on the level below.
No copies traced on OCLC, CCfr or Library Hub. OCLC finds a single copy of any issue of the Perfidies supposées (1793), at the BnF.
See Cohen-De Ricci, col. 64 (for 1791); Grand-Carteret 1068 (for 1792); Lewine, p. 22 (for 1793).
