Vie privée et criminelle d'Antoine-François Desrues
Subtitle: contenant les particularités de sa jeunesse, ses mauvaises inclinations ... et le détail des ... crimes atroces commis ... par ce scélérat envers la dame de Lamotte et son fils ...
Contributors: Arnaud, François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d', 1718-1805; Esnauts et Rapilly; Mondhare (Firm)
Publisher: Chez Cailleau
Published: 1777
Place of publication: A Avignon; Et se trouve a Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Criminals; Biography; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Vie privée & criminelle de Desrues
Notes: Frontispiece not counted in plate count.

Ascribed to Baculard d'Arnaud, or, by Barbier, to André-Charles Cailleau. Cf. BN.

According to the notice on the t.p. verso, the plates can be found at Esnauts et Rapilly or at Mondhare, and inserted in the text according to the instructions on pp. 130-131. The text with frontispiece alone costs 24 sols; with all the illustrations, 48 sols.

Rare Book copy: Pages 25-28 mutilated in upper corner with slight loss of text; plate facing page 101 trimmed at top with some loss of image.