(ALMANAC). ~ L’Amour Badin ou les ruses de Cupidon dediès a la jeunesse. Paris: [Jagot for] Boulanger, [1788].
32mo (96 × 55 mm), pp. [6], 61, [1], [6], including 12 engraved plates by Quéverdo (included in pagination) plus integral printed wrapper with engraved title and ‘Remarques pour la présente année 1789’ at front and imprint and decorative panel border at rear. Engraved throughout, including music. Some pages closely cut just affecting ruled borders or touching the musical staves in a very few instances. Gilt edges, stitched as issued, loose in contemporary/original gilt morocco chemise. Wrappers very slightly rubbed and dusty, but an excellent survival.
Sole edition of this entertaining almanac for 1789, aimed at young people (but presumably not children) with a delightful suite of humorous and mildly erotic plates by François-Marie-Isidore Queverdo. Each month is given an engraving, several verses and songs with music. Among the latter is found ‘Air de la negresse’ — a three-verse song with music from (or perhaps just inspired by) Radet’s 1787 opéra-comique La Negresse. Though recorded by both Gay and Carteret we have not located any institutional copy in the usual online catalogues (WorldCat, KVK, CCFr, JISC). Carteret 866; Gay I, 112.