Feliccia ou mes fredaines

Paris: Georges Guillit, 1947.
First Thus.

28.5cm x 22.5cm. [vi], 186, [6] pages, 20 full page colour plates within the pagination. Contemporary full brown leather, leather label, gilt lettering, cloth onlay, retaining the original wrappers, slipcase. Text is in French.

A libertine novel first published in 1775, Nerciat’s Felicia ou mes fredaines was repeatedly suppressed by the authorities, with illustrated editions particularly liable to seizure and prosecution. Louis Icart (1888-1950) the French Art Deco illustrator best known for his erotic and fashionable feminine imagery, supplied twenty original colour etchings for this edition, printed by Joseph Zichieri. One of 30 numbered artist’s copies (from a total edition of 530), this copy in a fine signed binding by H. Jacquet-Riffieux incorporating a textile onlay of a nude female figure.

Occasional minor foxing and offsetting. Some creasing to a few of the tissue guards. Very Good Condition.

AU$1,500