A softcover volume 285 x 190 mm in cream French flapped wrapper and glassine dust cover, with lettering to front, pp.: [1-8] 9-201 [202] [4], i.e. 103 leaves, incl. frontispiece, ‘Fin’ page and leaves within the wrappers. Title-page vignette, full-page and in-text illustrations, and tailpieces after Feodor Rojankovsky by au pochoir reproductions in colour. Print run limited to 200 numbered copies, of which this is № 14.
Title-page: P. L. | TROIS FILLES | DELEUR MÈRE | {vignette} | AUX DÉPENS D’UN AMATEUR | ET POUR SES AMIS ||
Limitation: Le présent ouvrage a été tiré à | deux cents exemplaires tous numérotés | EXEMPLAIRE 14 ||
Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 2522, p. 391; Pia II № 1341, p. 700.
Contributors:
Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author.
Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan; Рожанковский, Фёдор Степанович] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970) – artist.
As for the illustrations, Pascal Pia (1978) in Les Livres de l’enfer does not provide any attribution. Jean-Pierre Dutel in his Bibliographie des ouvrages érotiques publiés clandestinement en français entre 1920 et 1970 (2005) attributes the illustrations to René Ranson (René Gontran Ranson, 1891 – 1977). After that, many antiquarian dealers and bloggers (John Kruse of johnkruseblog) repeat that wrongful attribution made by Victor Arwas. Now, Mr. Dutel has instructed me to inform the audience that the attribution in Bibliographie des ouvrages érotiques was wrong and that the illustrations for this edition were produced by Feodor Rojankovsky.
