Vol. 1:

Front wrapper (green and black): Pascal Pia | les | Livres | de l’Enfer | du XVI^eme siècle à nos jours | TOME I | C. Coulet et A. Faure ||

Title page: Pascal Pia | les | Livres (historiated initial «L») | de l’Enfer | Bibliographie critique des ouvrages | érotiques dans leurs différentes | éditions du XVI^e siècle à nos jours. | Tome I | A à L | C. Coulet et A. Faure | 5 rue Drouot | Paris 9^e | 1978 ||

Pagination: [1-6] 7-413 [414].

Vol. 2:

Front wrapper similar to Vol. 1 but “TOME II”; title similar to Vol. 1 but “Tome II | M à Z”.

Pagination: [6] 415-837 [838] [2] – colophon / blank.

Entries in the main sections are not numbered, each page has two columns of text and the columns are numbered 1-778 in vol. 1 and 779-1440 in vol. 2; p. 751– 792 – l’enfer BNF (numbered list); pp. 793-837 – index of authors, artists, editors, publishers, etc.

Edition: 1^st; limited to 900 copies, first 100 numbered 1-100 and printed on Ingres paper, next 800 numbered 1-800 and printed on Centaure Ivoire paper. This copy is № 34 (stamped in black) from the first hundred.

Binding: 25 x 16.5 cm, both volumes printed on laid watermarked paper “Ingres”, untrimmed, uncut, uniformly bound in publisher’s wrappers lettered on front and spine.

Contributors:

Pascal Pia [Pierre Durand] (French, 1903 – 1979) – author/compiler.

Imprimerie centrale de l’Ouest (Roche-sur-Yon) – printer.