CURIOSA. IMPERIAL JAPANESE PRINT. ORIGINAL DRAWING. [Marquis - Lot 277

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CURIOSA. IMPERIAL JAPANESE PRINT. ORIGINAL DRAWING. [Marquis - Lot 277
CURIOSA. IMPERIAL JAPANESE PRINT. ORIGINAL DRAWING. [Marquise de MANNOURY d'ECTOT - Charles-Auguste EDELMANN]. Le Roman de Violette. To the Kingdom of Kythera, Sodom, 1920. A volume in-8 of vii, 197 pp., 1 f., green half-shell with corners, spine with nerves, natural edges, rubbing (binding of the time), cover preserved silent filled in green Ingres paper. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a vignette and 37 stenciled coloured plates signed Chéripoulos, pseudonym of the painter Charles Auguste Edelmann (1879-1950). Limited edition of 305 copies, one of 25 on Imperial Japan, enriched with an original pencil and watercolour drawing. The first edition was published in 1883. Perceau, who was very active during the inter-war period, dates this edition to 1928, which is refuted by Pia, who was also active at the same time, arguing that "the clandestine publisher of the book, after having quickly suspended sales in 1920, sold the remaining copies a few years later to a bookseller who put them on the market as a novelty". One knew, the other didn't... What became commonplace at the end of the 20th century was much less so under the Third Republic. The Marquise may be considered the first woman to devote her pen to the turpitudes of sex. Under the pseudonym of Madame la vicomtesse de Coeur-Brûlant, Mannoury d'Ectot published a second bestseller of clandestine literature, Les Cousines de la colonelle, in Paris, under the name of Les Petites Dames stores, in 1886, in fact in Amsterdam, in 1890, with Auguste Brancart. (Pia 1283, Enfer 1075, Perceau 58-5, Dutel 2339)
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