Therese philosophe..
Argens, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer,marquis d',1704-1771.
Montigny, Arles de.
Glascow [i.e. Paris?], : [s.n.],
1773..
First published in 1748 with the title: Thérese philosophe, ou, Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du P. Dirrag, & de Mademoiselle Eradice.
Imprint is false, book was probably printed on the Continent, possibly in France or the Netherlands.
J. Gay, "Bibliographie des Ouvrages Relatifs à l'Amour, aux Femmes, au Mariage [etc]", records 20 plates (including frontispiece) in this edition, as in the London [i.e. Paris?] 1771 edition, but there are no indication of any missing plates in NLS copy and the plates in this edition are different to the London 1771 edition.
Attributed to the Marquis d'Argens (originally by the Marquis de Sade, in Histoire de Juliette) and to Arles de Montigny, among others. Cf. Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, IV, col. 708-709. For discussion of authorship question and explanation of the scandal on which the tale is based and of the anagrammatic names in the title, as well as reproductions of the plates in several editions, cf. Thérèse philosophe : erotische Kupferstiche aus fünf berühmten Büchern / Nachwort von Jacques Duprilot. c1982.  Cf. also introd. to Thérèse the philosopher / by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d'Argens ; translated by H. Smith. c1970.
Gay, J.  Bib. de l'amour,
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Scotland Glasgow.