[Johannès GROS]. Cydalise ou le Péché dans le miroir, illust - Lot 359

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[Johannès GROS]. Cydalise ou le Péché dans le miroir, illust - Lot 359
[Johannès GROS]. Cydalise ou le Péché dans le miroir, illustrated with eight etchings by T. Mertens. [Paris, circa 1930]. First edition. In-8 of 229 pages, half tan leather, spine decorated, cover preserved, printed in blue. Illustrated with eight watercolour etchings, including one in the frontispiece, designed by a talented illustrator, not yet identified. Limited edition of 700 copies. One of 600 numbered copies on vellum. All agree on the talent of this unknown author. A "text of quality" underlines Dutel, "an erotomaniac of great style, coming after Pierre Louÿs and Mac Orlan, [...] the only one we can compare to them" for Alexandrian. The latter also reveals the publisher's particular attachment to his author: "The modern author discovered by Maurice Duflou, the one he edited with the most enthusiasm, was Johannès Gros. "He was a very cultured journalist," he explained to me, "with a passion for women's lingerie, which he always detailed in refined descriptions." Reading the preface written for Dévergondages, Maurice Duflou tells us that Johannès Gros died in 1937. PC 528, Dutel 1331, not in the Enfer de la BnF.
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