Softcover, 228 x 155 mm, embossed geometrical diaper pink French flapped wrappers with black and orange lettering to front; collated 8vo: 1-10
8, i.e. 80 leaves, pp.: [4] [1-4] 5-152 [4], plus 12 colour plates; woodcut t.p. vignette, head- and tailpieces in sanguine.
Text printed on wove paper watermarked
Marais, untrimmed, some leaves uncut; colour illustrations produced by half-tone relief photo reproduction technique and printed on thinner paper without a watermark. Colouring is most probably made by hand.
Besides the presence of the platemarks, micro-photo reveals clear signs of the half-tone relief photomechanical reproduction method:
Title-page (red and black): SPADDY |
COLETTE | OU |
LES AMUSEMENTS DE BON TON | ROMAN | {vignette} |
A SAINT – CLOUD |
AU TEMPLE DE CYTHÈRE ||
Limitation: CE ROMAN, EDITÉ POUR DES AMATEURS ET | NON MIS DANS LE COMMERCE, A ETÉ TIRÉ | A 250 EXEMPLAIRES, SUR VELIN PUR FIL | DU MARAIS, NUMÉROTÉS A LA PRESSE. |
Cet exemplaire porte le No 49
Catalogue Raisonné: Dutel III № 1254: second edition with reproduction plates, published in 1939. The 1
st edition with the original plates after Bécat was published in c. 1938.
Honesterotica.com:
Colette, ou les amusements de bon ton (Colette, Good Time Amusements) was an important early commission from Bécat by the master clandestine publisher Maurice Duflou, to complement a text bordering on the outrageous by Johannès Gros…
Contributors:
Spaddy [Johannès Gros] (French, 18.. – 1937) – author
Maurice Duflou (French, 1885 – 1947) – publisher
Paul-Émile Bécat (French, 1885 – 1960) – artist
Softcover comics book, oblong flapped wrappers, 186 x 280 mm, pink border in black rules, black lettering to front, 45 unpaginated leaves (pp. 90) with text and pictorial story, some in-text woodcuts and a tail-piece. No title-page. Catalogue Raisonné: Dutel III, 2424, pp. 368-9. The publication was prosecuted per the French Law of December 20, 1965. Sophie is a re-written version of Puberté. Journal d’une escolière [by Maria Luz], published in 1933 by Éditions Raoul Saillard, Paris. Publisher: Éric Losfeld (Belgian-French, 1922 – 1979)
Softcover, 228 x 155 mm, embossed geometrical diaper pink French flapped wrappers with black and orange lettering to front; collated 8vo: 1-108, i.e. 80 leaves, pp.: [4] [1-4] 5-152 [4], plus 12 colour plates; woodcut t.p. vignette, head- and tailpieces in sanguine. Text printed on wove paper watermarked Marais, untrimmed, some leaves uncut; colour illustrations produced by half-tone relief photo reproduction technique and printed on thinner paper without a watermark. Colouring is most probably made by hand. Besides the presence of the platemarks, micro-photo reveals clear signs of the half-tone relief photomechanical reproduction method:
Owner’s half-cloth over marbled boards, 150 x 117 mm, convolute of two clandestine publications, approx. 1890, original light blue wrappers preserved; title pages in frame with meander corners: (1) Les travaux forcés et la déportation | politique en Russie. | КАТОРГА И ССЫЛКА | ~ | ЖЕНЕВА | Вольная русская типографiя || pp.: 1-67 [68 blank], black ink stamp — М. Цебрикова to p. 67. (2) Lettre à l'Empereur Alexandre III. | ПИСЬМО | ИМПЕРАТОРУ АЛЕКСАНДРУ III | ~ | ЖЕНЕВА | Вольная русская типографiя || pp.: 1-40, black ink stamp М. Цебрикова to p. 40. Цебрикова, Мария Константиновна (Russian, 1835 – 1917)
