A Study of the Century: Sweet Seventeen: The True Story of a Daughter’s Awful Whipping and its Delightful if Direful Consequences
[Jean de Villiot], Martin van MaeleParis: Issued for the Subscribers Only, 1910.
First Edition.
23cm x 14.5cm. 63 pages, 2 plates, 2 etchings in the text. Plain orange wrappers.
English translation of Hugues Rebell’s 1905 work, ‘Dix-sept ans. Etude sociale’ authored under his Jean de Villiot pseudonym, including the copper-plate etchings by Martin van Maele. A limitation statement of 250 numbered copies, this copy out of sequence. Unrecorded in OCLC.
Minor tanning, very minor soiling. Short closed tear to front flyleaf, and short open tear to margin of page 41/2. Good Condition.
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AU$500