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BOYLESVE, Rene.
La Lecon d'Amour dans un parc. [Love lesson in a park]

The Lesson of Love in a Park is a novel by René Boylesve, published in 1902. It describes the love games of the occupants of a castle while a child, who grows up over the course of the novel, poses as an innocent spectator of all these scenes without the role and expression of love feeling being affected in her eyes.

Published
Paris: Michel Albin, 22 rue Huygens, 1933.
Plates
41
Binding/Size
M=4to
Value
0-5000
Published
Paris: Michel Albin, 22 rue Huygens, 1933.
Ref
1573

Large quarto, uncut, blue letters to spine, with illustrated wrappers. A superb edition illustrated by Umberto Brunelleschi with 64 colour compositions, including 21 copper-engraved plates and 43 woodblock prints. Colours by Jacomet. This is a numbered (138) edition on Arches paper. A striking illustration on the front cover, with highlights in white gouache - one of Brunelleschi's most outstanding achievements. **Not all coloured illustrations have been listed** Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. Female nude stepping into a pond. 2. Half-page header to the first chapter. 3. Full-page illustration of some stone steps leading to a formal garden/park. 4. Half-page header to the second chapter. 5. Full-page illustration of a lady in a garden/park. 7. Half-page header to the third chapter. 6. Full page illustration of a lady stepping out of a sedan carriage. 7. Half-page header to the fourth chapter. 8. Full-page illustration of two women and a man playing musical instruments. 9. Half-page header to the fifth chapter. 10. Full page illustration of a gentleman making a sudden amorous 'advance' on a servant girl, carrying a tray of tea. 12. Half-page header to the sixth chapter. 13. Full page illustration of a very young girl listening by an open door. 14. Half-page header to the seventh chapter. 15. Full page illustration of a lady in the nude getting out of bed, watched by her lover. 16. Half-page header to the eighth chapter. 17. Full page illustration of a semi-nude lady reclining in a chair, attended by a servant. 18. Half-page header to the ninth chapter. 19. Full page illustration of a young lady and her gentleman lover taking a drink in the park. 20. Half-page header to the tenth chapter. 21. Full page illustration of a fully nude young lady sitting on an artist's stool - a gentleman's head pokes through the surrounding curtain. 22. Half-page header to the eleventh chapter. 23. Full page illustration of a gentleman holding a child's doll, in front of the child, in the park. 24. Half-page header to the twelfth chapter. 25. Full page illustration of a young girl smashing a small statue in a pond. 26. Half-page header to the thirteenth chapter. 27. Full-page illustration of what looks like a gentleman prisoner urinating (?) at a lady, whose face appears at his cell door window. 28. Half-page header to the fourteenth chapter. 29. Full-page illustration of two lovers kissing and embracing each other. 30. Half-page header to the fifteenth chapter. 31. Full page illustration of a scantily clad lady lying on a bed, with a gentleman opening up the surrounding curtains. 32. Half-page header to the sixteenth chapter. 33. Full page illustration of a semi-nude lady asleep on her bed, with a gentleman watching her through an open door. 34. Half-page header to the seventeenth chapter. 35. Full-page illustration of two young girls in the park. 36. Half-page header to the eighteenth chapter. 37. Full page illustration of a gentleman conversing with a rustic fisherman on the banks of a river. 38. Half-page header to the nineteenth chapter. 39. Full page illustration of a young nude girl, warming herself in front of a log fire. 40. Half-page header to the twentieth chapter. 41. Full page illustration of a young woman sitting in a tree in the park.