Félix REGNIER-BECKER]. Twenty years of the... - Lot 339 - Marie-Saint Germain

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Félix REGNIER-BECKER]. Twenty years of the... - Lot 339 - Marie-Saint Germain
Félix REGNIER-BECKER]. Twenty years of the life of a beautiful woman or Memoirs of Julia R. Part One. In Vito-Cono-Cuno-Clytoropolis, at Bandefort, printer-library, rue de la Couille, at the Liberal Founder, 1789 [1866]. In-16 of 74 pages, red half-chagrin with corners, smooth spine, long title (old binding). Printed on laid paper and illustrated with 6 engravings printed on vellum and paginated. Félix Régnier-Becker was a commissionaire in bookshops, a wholesaler specialized in the traffic of prohibited works and obscene pictures, and he was also a "Sunday writer". Initially a carpenter in Méru, in the Oise region, he became known at the end of the reign of Charles X as the author of satirical songs (Pia 1408). This text includes a sequel entitled "Vingt ans de la vie d'un jeune homme" (Twenty years in the life of a young man) published the same year. Work condemned to destruction by a decision of the Seine Court of Assizes on August 9, 1842 (Aff. against Régnier-Becker) and by the Seine Correctional Court on March 13, 1852 (Aff. Langlois). This text was again referred to in the sentences rendered against Chapelle and Lefebvre, on 10 February and 30 May 1852 (Drujon). Limited edition of 160 copies on Hollande paper (Some copies are not justified). Lemonnyer III-1361, Dutel A-1174.
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