Title-page (red and black): La | Trilogie Érotique | DE | Paul VERLAINE | (AMIES. — FEMMES. — HOMBRES) | — | Édition illustrée | de quinze compositions originales dessinées et gravées à l’eau-forte | par VAN TROIZEM | et augmentée d’un Avant-propos | par un | Bibliophile Verlainien | — | A PARIS ET A LONDRES | — | 1907 ||
Front wrapper: La | Trilogie Érotique | DE | Paul VERLAINE | (AMIES. — FEMMES. — HOMBRES) | {lotus flower} | A PARIS ET A LONDRES | — | 1907 ||
Inprint/Limitation: Cette édition strictement limitée à 235 exemplaires a été tirée pour les souscripteurs et non mise dans le commerce. — JUSTIFICATION DU TIRAGE: 20 exemplaires Japon avec double suite (n° 1 à 20); 215 exemplaires papier d’Arches (n° 21 à 235). — EXEMPLAIRE n° 168.
Place/Date: Paris, London / 1907
Publisher: Anonymous/Unknown
Printer: C. Renaudie (rue de Seine)
Language: French
Pagination: [2 blank], [2 half-title/limitation], [2 title-page/blank], [i], ii–vii [viii], [1–3] 4–134 [4 tables] [4 blanks]; total 156 pp.
Collation: π7, 1–88, 97 (total 78 leaves) plus 15 leaves of plates with captioned tissue guards, incl. frontispiece.
Plates: 15 etchings after Martin van Maele pencil drawings (under the pseudonym Van Troizem); plates extraneous to collation.
Description:
Softcover, 210 × 135 mm, publisher’s flapped wrappers with lettering to front cover and spine; fleuron to back cover; edges untrimmed except top margin. Printed on laid paper; illustrations printed on wove paper with MBM watermark (Ingres d'Arches). According to Jean-Pierre Dutel, the edition published in Paris in 1907 by Jules Chevrel, printed by C. Renaudie (rue de Seine), typography identical to Le Carquois du sieur Louvigné du Désert.
Note: The book size per Dutel – 200 x 132 mm; per Binet – 198 x 128 mm (justif. 109 x 81 mm).
Catalogue raisonné: Dutel II: 856; S. A. Perry (2015) № 65, p. 55; Luc Binet № 131, pp. 831-849.
Contributors:
Paul Verlaine (French, 1844–1896) — author
Maurice François Alfred Martin van Maële [Martin van Maële] (French, 1863 – 1926) – artist
Additional Information
| Collection | Erotica , Illustrated books , Library |
|---|---|
| Type / Purpose | Book |
| Period | 20 AD , Early 20th century |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Media/Technique | Etching , Laid paper , Paper , Wove paper |
| Subject | Erotic books , Erotic illustration , Erotica , French poetry , Homosexual , Illustrated books , Sexual behavior and attitudes |
| Creation / Publishing year | 1907 |
| Binding | Original , Softcover , Wrappers |
| Edition | 1st edition , Clandestine edition , Limited |
| Catalogue raisonne | J.-P. Dutel , Luc Binet 2017 , S. A. Perry (2015) |
| Location | Bookshelf 19.4. |
| Acquisition year | 2025 |
