[Henriette de Mannoury d’Ectot.] Le roman de Violette. — Paris: Jacques Haumont, [1960].

Author: Henriette de Mannoury d'Ectot [Henriette Nicolas Le Blanc] (French 1815 – 1899)
Illustrator: Gaston Barret (French, 1910–1991)
Editor/Publisher: Jacques Haumont (French, 1899–1974)
Typographer: Charles Gerbaud (French, active mid-20th c.)
Printer: Imprimerie André (Paris).
Language: French.

Title-page: LE ROMAN | DE VIOLETTE | ŒUVRE POSTHUME | D’UNE CÉLÉBRITÉ MASQUÉE. | GRAVURES ORIGINALES | DE | GASTON BARRET. | IMPRIMÉ | POUR LES SOUSCRIPTEURS | PAR JACQUES HAUMONT | A PARIS. ||

Description: Double slipcase, purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine, 255 × 172 mm. — Publisher’s cream wrappers, 242 × 165 mm, printed in violet, enclosing unbound gatherings in 4to; pages uncut. — Two preliminary leaves within the wrappers, followed by the first gathering of 8 leaves and sixteen gatherings of 4 leaves each. — Pp. [1–7] (blank, half-title, title-page, Avant-propos), 8–141 [3] (blank, limitation statement, blank). — Illustrated with twelve original colour engravings by Gaston Barret, printed in intaglio à la poupée and heightened by hand with pochoir on vellum paper. — This copy is enhanced with an additional suite of the twelve plates printed in black (uncoloured) and one original watercolour by the artist.

Limitation: 1 copy on handmade paper from Moulin Richard-de-Bas (no. 1); 5 copies on vélin d’Arches (nos II–VI); 10 copies on vélin de Rives (nos VII–XVI); 80 copies on vélin (nos XVII–LXXXVI); and 420 copies on vélin (nos I–420). — This copy numbered XXII (within the series XVII–LXXXVI).

Inprint (Colophon): Composed in Romain Old Face corps 12 by Charles Gerbaud and printed by André, Paris, for Jacques Haumont, publisher.

Binding / Materials: Loose quires in printed wrappers, housed in publisher’s violet cloth chemise and matching slipcase.

Notes: Fine-press illustrated edition of this anonymous French erotic novel, first published circa 1866 and later attributed to Henriette Nicolas Le Blanc, Comtesse Mannoury d’Ectot (1815–1899). Privately issued for subscribers by Jacques Haumont, it exemplifies mid-twentieth-century French bibliophilic printing. The present copy belongs to the deluxe issue, containing both an uncoloured suite of the engravings and an original watercolour by Gaston Barret.

Other editions in this collection:

LIB-3273.2024 [Henriette de Mannoury d’Ectot]. Le roman de Violette. — Sodome: Royne de Cythère, 1920. Artist: Edelmann, Charles Auguste [Chéripoulos] (French, 1879 – 1950); Dutel III № 2339.