Julie, ou J’ai Sauve ma Rose. Par Madame de C***.

A Hambourg, et se Trouve a Paris: Chez les Marchands de Nouveautes, 1807.
Second Edition.

18.5cm x 11cm. [iv], 252; [iv], 287 pages, 2 volumes. Quarter cloth, marbled papered boards, leather labels, gilt lettering. Text is in French.

Possibly the first sapphic novel written by a woman, well over a century before Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness. The vivid depiction of lesbian love lends to the warning on the title page, “La mere en defendra la lecture a sa fille” [The mother will forbid her daughter to read it], and led to the novel’s censure in 1825 and on the ruling of obscenity and its destruction in 1827. First published in 1807, this is a survived example of the second edition, with the French spelling modernized, published in 1820 or 1821 but with the same 1807 imprint of the first edition. Sometimes attributed to Felicite de Choiseul-Meuse, and also to Madame Guyot, both have been refuted. PERCEAU 6-2, PIA pp. 662-3, GAY Vol. IV pp. 196.

Minor rubbing and pushing to corners. Minor foxing. Very Good Condition.

AU$3,000.00

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