A group comprising sixteen albums of mainly 19th- and early-20th-century erotic engravings, and two chaste volumes with explicit fore edge paintings (c.170 x c.50mm); the albums comprising at total of c.239 engravings, some of them hand-coloured, by various artists including Henry Monnier, Félicien Rops, and the Romantic school typically associated with Devéria, and including plates from editions of Gamiani, Invocation à l’amour, La Petite bucheronne, Liqueurs et Parfums, Faublas, Le Rideau levé, Vie du soldat, and a work attributed to Devéria titled in manuscript ‘Les Plaisirs de la bourgeoisie au 19eme siècle’ (occasional spotting and occasional light wear). Various 19th- and 20th-century bindings (occasional wear).