Hardcover, 28.3 x 22.5 cm, two volumes bound in one in full navy crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf for E. Joseph (signed), border fillet and red and gilt lettering to front, spine with raised bands outlined in gilt, red and gilt lettering in compartments, gilt dentelle, blue moire endpapers, all margins gilt; one of the original wrappers preserved, 14 tissue-guarded colour woodcuts after Alastair; text in black with red titles and initials (hand-set type), and the illustrations printed on watermarked ‘Moirans’ laid paper.

Title-page (red and black): Les Liaisons Dangereuses | by | CHODERLOS DE LACLOS | With Illustrations | by | ALASTAIR | THE BLACK SUN PRESS | DEUX RUE CARDINALE | PARIS | MCMXXIX ||

Limitation: a print run of 1020 copies: 15 on Japon, 1000 on Moirans and 5 NFS; this is copy № 143 (vol. 1) and 303 (vol. 2)

Contributors:

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (French, 1741 – 1803) – author.

Ernest Christopher Dowson (British, 1867 – 1900) – translator.

Alastair [Hans-Henning Baron von Voigt] (German, 1887 – 1969) – artist.

Comte Ulric de Civry (French, 1853 – 1935) – dedicatee.

Black Sun Press (1927 – 1970) – publishing company.

Harry Crosby (American, 1898 – 1929) – publisher.

Caresse Crosby [Mary Phelps Jacob] (American, 1892 – 1970) – publisher.

Joseph William Zaehnsdorf (Austrian, 1853 – 1930) – bookbinder.