Neuf pas autour de ma chambre. Tournée sentimentale, dédiée aux…

8vo (192 × 110 mm), pp. [4], 113, [1], plus one aquatint plate in sepia. Contemporary tree calf, gilt, orange morocco label. Slightly rubbed, joints just starting at foot, but a pretty copy. Contemporary inscription ‘...... Rosen’ [partly illegible]. Shield-shaped bookplate with inscription ‘A Madame la Comtesse de Rosen née Wahrendorff hommage de l’auteur’

First edition, presentation copy. A witty imaginary Voyage autor de ma chambre in the spirit of Le Maistre. In just nine steps the author circumnavigates his room, bumping into Napoleon and traversing Europe. There are verses, riddles, enigmas and an acrostic on the Swedish succession: ‘Charles Jean Prince Royal de Suede’. The ninth step is a long verse dedicated to the elderly British King George III. The allegorical plate depicts voyagers in an elegant state of undress on the back of a flying horse. The dedicatee of this presentation copy is Maria Juliana Wahrendorff von Rosen (1763-1820). Worldcat locates the Yale copy only in the US. JISC/Copac lists no UK copies.