Folastrie [Une jeune Pucelette]. by LYDIS, Mariette, illustrator.

8vo (218 × 164 mm), pp. 35, [11] including 4 etched plates (2 designs, each in 2 states, black and sanguine) and front and rear blanks. Stitched as issued in the original wrappers, slipcase. head and foot of spine slightly bumped, but still a very good copy.

One of a small number of copies only for private circulation, with the two erotic plates of young girls by Lydis, illustrating the first Folastrie of Ronsard’s 1553 collection Livret de Folastries. Carteret, III, p. 313. Worldcat lists the Dutch Royal Library copy only (where the place of publication is suggested as Buenos Aires). No copy in the Bibliothèque nationale, one additional copy at Edinburgh.