Douze Sonnets lascifs pour accompagner la suite d’aquarelles intitulee Les Delassements d’Eros
[Gerda Wegener], Alexandre de Verineau [Louis Perceau]Erotopolis [Paris]: A L'Enseigne du Faune [Maurice Duflou], 1925.
First Edition.
25.5cm x 20cm. 37 pages, 12 pochoir plates. Quarter cloth, illustrated papered boards portfolio, string ties. Text is in French.
Clandestine Parisian production pairing the brightly coloured erotic and lesbian illustrations of Gerda Wegener with poetic text by Louis Perceau. Wegener’s illustrations had previously been published without the text in 1917, the pair appearing here together for the first time. [“Faced with the difficulty of selling these illustrations alone, the publisher called upon Louis Perceau in 1925, who composed Twelve Lascivious Sonnets to accompany these plates.”] DUTEL 1434.
Boards a little grubby and most of the string ties worn. Endpapers tanned. Minor foxing. Very Good Condition.
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AU$4,000.00
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