Description: Softcover volume 27 x 21.3 cm in publisher’s French flapped cream wrappers, with a vignette and lettered in red within a black frame to front "GAMIANI | OU DEUX NUITS D'EXCÈS". Printed on unmarked wove paper, outer and lower margins untrimmed. Illustrated with full-page frontispiece, 10 headpieces, and 5 smaller woodcuts (one repeated on the front wrapper and on t.p.) by Pierre Aubert after Jean-Gabriel Daragnès [pseud. Jean de Guethary], some with inlaid tissue guards. Copy enriched with one graphite pencil drawing signed "J. de Guethary", tipped in before h.t.
Title-page (red and black): GAMIANI | OU DEUX NUITS D'EXCÈS | PAR A. DE M. | Avec | des vignettes | de | JEAN DE GUETHARY | {VIGNETTE} | — | CHEZ UN BOURGEOIS DE PARIS | Rue du Coq Hardi | 1845 ||
Pagination: [i-vi] (orig. drawing, h.t. / vignette, t.p./limit.) [vii] viii-xx, [1-3] 4-64 [4]; total 88 pages.
Limitation: Edition limited to 110 copies. According to Dutel, 110 copies were printed on Japon ancient, 3 on Japon Impérial, and 3 on Whatman. This copy is № 115.
Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970): № 1630, p. 183; Pia (Enfer) 527, p. 286.
Alfred de Musset (French, 1810 – 1857) – author.
Jean-Gabriel Daragnès (French, 1886 – 1950) – artist, publisher.
Pierre Aubert (Swiss, 1910 – 1987) – engraver.
Additional Information
| Collection | Illustrated books , Library |
|---|---|
| Type / Purpose | Book |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Period | 20 AD , Early 20th century |
| Media/Technique | Wood engraving , Woodcut |
| Binding | Original , Softcover , Wrappers |
| Material | Paper , Wove paper |
| Subject | 19th century , Clandestine edition , Erotica , Fiction , French literature , Illustrated books , Limited editions , Modern literature , Sex , Sexual behavior and attitudes , Sexual life , Sexuality , Wood engraving , Woodcut |
| Edition | 1st edition, thus , Clandestine edition , Limited |
| Creation / Publishing year | 1920 |
| Catalogue raisonne | J.-P. Dutel , Pia (1978) |
| Acquisition year | 2022 |
