Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue by the Marquis de Sade/Opus Sadicum: A Philosophical Romance, for the First Time Translated from the Original French, Isidore Liseux, Paris, 1889, 391pp, cloth, 6.5 x 10", 8vo

Fair condition.  Wear and staining to boards.  Tips are bumped.  Paper title plate on spine is chipped, but mostly legible.  Frontispiece opposite title page.  Rear hinge is cracked.  Toning, age-staining, and finger-staining throughout textblock.  Binding is fragile.  Please see photos.

This edition is limited to 250 copies, but a specific number has not been written in for this copy.

Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue is a 1791 novel by Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade.  It was an early work by the Marquis de Sade, written in two weeks in 1787 while imprisoned in Bastille.  Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the arrest of the anonymous author of Justine and, as a result, de Sade was incarcerated for the last 13 years of his life.  The book's destruction was ordered by the Cour Royale de Paris on May 19, 1815.