Lettres a la Presidente et Galanteries Poetiques

Neuilly: Editions du "Musee Secret", 1927.
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23.5cm x 16.5cm. 199 pages, 15 plates. Three quarter leather, marbled papered boards, gilt lettering, top edge gilt. Text is in French.

Gautier’s notoriously obscene letter from Italy to Madame Sabatier, known as “La Presidente” and one of Baudelaire’s muses, together with his bawdy verse and sixty-five previously unpublished letters. With an introduction and notes by Helpey [Louis Perceau] and a study of Sabatier by Sylvestre Bonnard [Pierre Dufay]. Illustrated with twelve erotic etchings by Viset [Luc Lafnet] and three photographic plates. One of 450 numbered copies on velin de Rives, from a total edition of 465.

Very minor shelf wear. Very minor cockling to preliminaries. Near Fine Condition.

AU$500