REVOLUTIONARY ROSES
[ALMANACK.]
Les etrennes a la rose, ou le rosier d’amour.
Paris, Janet, [1804?].
[bound around:]
[Drop-head title:] Ariettes nouvelles. [S.l., s.n., s.a.]
Two works in one vol., 24mo, Etrennes: pp. 24, with engraved title and 12 engraved plates; engraved throughout; Ariettes nouvelles: pp. [24]; bound within a folding letterpress Janet calendar for An XII (1804), of which only one half present; slight spotting, a few marks to p. 6; but a good copy; bound in strictly contemporary red silk, embroidered in silver thread and with silver sequins and plates (see below), ‘An XII’ embroidered to spine, edges gilt, pink silk endpapers lined with gilt brocade; dampstain to silk, silver tarnished, minor wear at extremities.
A charming literary almanack, or ‘rosebush of love’, collecting amatory poems using the motif of the rose, here bound in red silk strikingly embroidered in silver and dated with the French Revolutionary year ‘An XII’ (1804).
The silver embroidery on each board depicts a basket of roses among foliage and, above, wreaths encircling the initial ‘A’ and the monogram ‘S M’. Roses feature prominently in the engraved plates, depicting, inter alia, lovers stealing a kiss amidst wild rosebushes, two pairs of lovers watering roses, a ‘rose-coloured dream’, and several depictions of young men presenting roses to their beloveds.
Not traced on OCLC or CCFr.
