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[HARAUCOURT, Edmond (1856-1941) under the pseudonym of:] Le Sire de CHAMBLEY. La Legende des sexes. Poëmes Hystériques et profanes. Brussels [Nevers]: for the author, 1882 [but 1883].
8° (235 x 146mm). Title printed in red and black. Extra-illustrated with 31 original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawings, most initialled ‘J.L.’. Light brown crushed morocco by Marius Michel, the pastedowns lined with red morocco and gilt-tooled with phallic corner pieces, with the original wrappers bound in, the spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments, lettered directly in gilt, top edge gilt, the free endpapers lined with gold brocade, slipcase.
A UNIQUE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, extra-illustrated with original watercolours throughout, perhaps by Jean-Louis Jazet, and in a binding by Marius Michel incorporating phallic ornaments. La Légende des sexes is Haraucourt’s ‘epic of the underbelly’, taking as its subject everything from Creation (‘from the first coupling is sprung the first molecule’) to the decadence of his own time. One of 200 copies issued in two series (i.e. ‘A’ and ‘B’), this one numbered ‘B.58’, and signed by the author (‘Edmond Chambley’), after twelve copies in the tirage de tête printed on japan paper. Dutel 444; Eros invaincu 80; Pia 765; Private Case 876.
8° (235 x 146mm). Title printed in red and black. Extra-illustrated with 31 original pen-and-ink and watercolour drawings, most initialled ‘J.L.’. Light brown crushed morocco by Marius Michel, the pastedowns lined with red morocco and gilt-tooled with phallic corner pieces, with the original wrappers bound in, the spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments, lettered directly in gilt, top edge gilt, the free endpapers lined with gold brocade, slipcase.
A UNIQUE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, extra-illustrated with original watercolours throughout, perhaps by Jean-Louis Jazet, and in a binding by Marius Michel incorporating phallic ornaments. La Légende des sexes is Haraucourt’s ‘epic of the underbelly’, taking as its subject everything from Creation (‘from the first coupling is sprung the first molecule’) to the decadence of his own time. One of 200 copies issued in two series (i.e. ‘A’ and ‘B’), this one numbered ‘B.58’, and signed by the author (‘Edmond Chambley’), after twelve copies in the tirage de tête printed on japan paper. Dutel 444; Eros invaincu 80; Pia 765; Private Case 876.
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