Softcover volume, 22.8 x 17 cm, French flapped wrapper simulating unprimed canvas with crimson lettering to front; pp.: ffl, [5/6] h.t., [7/8] t.p., 9-109 [110], [111/112] limitation/blank, ffl; plus 12 colour lithographs by Schem (Raoul Serres), incl. frontispiece; printed on wove paper.
Title-page (red and black): L’ÉCOLE | DES | BICHES | OU | MŒURS DES | PETITES DAMES DE CE TEMPS | [blank] | M. CM. XXXIX. ||
Limitation: printed 99 copies of which this is № 27; date of printing July 10, 1939.
Catalog raisonné: Dutel III № 1447.
As per J.-P. Dutel (II № 231 pp 119-20), the text was published in Brussels in 1868 by Jean-Pierre Blanche. Presumed authors are Alfred Bégis, Frederick Hankey and Edmund Duponchel.
[BEGIS, Alfred, with DUPONCHEL, Edmond, and HANKEY, Frederick, attributed to.] L’École des Biches ou Mœurs des petites dames de ce temps. Paris [but Brussels]: [Jean-Pierre Blanche,] 1863 [1868] sold at Christie’s for GBP 1,000 on November 18, 2014. For details, see [LIB-2812.2021] Highlights from the Erotica Library of Tony Fekete / Auction catalogue, Tuesday 18 November 2014. — London: Christie’s, 2014. — Lot 36.
Contributors:
Alfred Bégis (French, 1829 – 1904) – author.
Frederick Hankey (British, 1823 – 1882) – author.
Edmund Duponchel (French, c. 1795 – 1868) – author.
Jean-Pierre Blanche (Beligian, second half of the 19th century) – publisher.
Schem [real name Raoul Serres] (French, 1881– 1971) – artist.
