Author: [BOUREAU - DELANDES (Andre Francois)]:
Title: Pigmalion ou La Statue Animée.
Description: Berlin [no publisher] 1753 Small 8vo, 145 x 78 mms., pp. vi, [7] - 69 [70 blanks], engraved title-page with vignette of flowers in a basket, with 8 blank leaves before title-page and 9 blank leaves after last leaf of text, contemporary lightly mottled calf, gilt border on covers, gilt spine, red morocco label, marbled end-papers, with large contemporary engraved ex-libris (Claud Joyant) to verso of free endpaper, showing a rural scene with lake, flowers, etc.; and a smaller engraving of Pigmalion et Galathee pasted to facing recto; title-page and following leaf browned The French philosopher André-François Boureau-Deslandes (1689–1757) was one of the precursors of the group whose efforts resulted in the Encyclopedie. The work was first published in 1742 and in the same year was condemned to be burnt by the Parlement de Dijon (some sources give 1741 for the first edition). The work tells the now familiar story of a statue which, when kissed, comes to life, acquires feelings and a soul. No copies traced in Copac; WorldCat locates copies at North Carolina Chapel Hill and Johns Hopkins. See Marc André Bernier, "Mécanique des sensations et conception du mariage dans Pigmalion ou La Statue Animée" in Sexualité, mariage et famille au XVIIIe siècle (1998).

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