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L'Année des dames nationales; ou histoire, jour-par-jour, d'une femme de France

Attributed to: Louis Binet (French, 1744–about 1800)
Attributed to: Nicolas Ransonnette (French, 1745–1810)
Author: Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne (French, 1734–1806)
Publisher: Nicolas Bonaventure Duchesne (French, died in 1765)
1791–94
Place of Publication: Paris, France

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with 30 etching and engravings
Dimensions Overall (each vol., depth variable): 17 x 10.6 x 3.7 cm (6 11/16 x 4 3/16 x 1 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William A. Sargent Collection—Bequest of William A. Sargent
Accession Number37.1664a-f
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Geneva and Paris: 1791-1794

Catalogue Raisonné Cohen-de Ricci 884
Description(Geneva and Paris: 1792-1794) 12mo, twelve parts in six vols.; [v. 1] 300 leaves, plus 5 plates; [v. 2] 350 ll., plus 6 pls.; [v. 3] 310 ll., plus 6 pls.; [v. 4] 321 ll., plus 3 [of 4, lacking frontispiece to August] pls.; [v. 5] 320 ll., plus 5 pls.; [v. 6] 312 ll., plus 5 pls.; modern gilt-stamped half brown calf, brown marbled paper boards.

Literary illustrations.
ProvenanceAcquired in 1914 by William A. Sargent, Boston (1858-1936), by whom bequeathed to MFA, November 17, 1937.