[MANNOURY d'ECTOT (Marquise de). Le Roman de Violette. À la - Lot 336

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[MANNOURY d'ECTOT (Marquise de). Le Roman de Violette. À la - Lot 336
[MANNOURY d'ECTOT (Marquise de). Le Roman de Violette. À la Royne de Cythère, Sodome, 1920. One volume in-8 of vii, 197 pages, 1 f., green Ingres paper filled blank cover. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a vignette and 37 stenciled plates signed Chéripoulos, pseudonym of the painter Charles Auguste Edelmann (1879-1950). Limited edition of 305 copies, one of 275 copies on Hollande, not numbered. 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, gave the remaining copies to a bookseller a few years later 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 dedicate her pen to the turpitudes of sex. Under the pseudonym of Mme la vicomtesse de Cœur-Brûlant, Mannoury d'Ectot published a second best-seller of clandestine literature, Les Cousines de la colonelle, in Paris, under the sign of the stores of the Small Ladies, in 1886, in fact in Amsterdam, in 1890, at Auguste Brancart. (Pia 1283, Enfer 1075, Perceau 58-5, Dutel 2339)
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