Author: Crébillon, Claude Prosper Jolyot de
Title: Les Égarements Du Coeur Et De L'Esprit, Ou Mémoires De Mr De Melicour
Description: Chez Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, imprimeurs-libraires, associes - A Maestricht, 1779, reprint. Contemporary full calf, VG. [ht]+[tp]+xii+346pp, leather a little rubbed & worn & with the lettering piece largely missing, complete with the half title, hinges cracked but firm, one gather a little loose, a nice copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Later reprint of a novel by the French author Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon [ 1707 - 1777 ] which was first published in three parts between 1736-38. A Libertine novel, it concerns the 'education' of a young nobleman by various female lovers & his mentor the the libertine Versac.

Keywords: fiction, literature, erotica, french literature, libertine