Marquise de MANNOURY d'ECTOT]. Le Roman de Violette. À la Ro - Lot 376

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Marquise de MANNOURY d'ECTOT]. Le Roman de Violette. À la Ro - Lot 376
Marquise de MANNOURY d'ECTOT]. Le Roman de Violette. À la Royne de Cythère, Sodom, 1920. In-8 of VII, 197 pages, 1 f., in a beautiful Art-Deco binding, midnight blue morocco mosaic on beige morocco fillets with alternating cut-outs, underlined by a large silver fillet, smooth spine decorated with 2 white morocco lozenges, title in full (Jakob). Illustrated with a frontispiece, a vignette and 37 stencil-coloured plates signed Chéripoulos, pseudonym of the painter Charles Auguste Edelmann (1879-1950). Limited edition of 305 copies, one of 275 copies on Hollande. The original edition was published in 1883. Perceau, who was very active during the interwar period, dates this edition to 1928, which Pia, who was also active at the same time, refutes, arguing that "the clandestine publisher of the work, after having quickly suspended its sale in 1920, sold the remaining copies a few years later to a bookseller who put them on the market by presenting them as a novelty. One knew, the other did not... What became a commonplace at the end of the 20th century was much less so under the Third Republic. The marquise can be considered as the first woman to devote her pen to the turpitudes of sex. Under the pseudonym of Mme la vicomtesse de Cœur-Brûlant, Mannoury d'Ectot published a second bestseller of clandestine literature, Les Cousines de la colonelle, in Paris, under the sign of the 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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