Berthomme Saint Andre Illustrator (4 results)

Leather Bound. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Limited Edition of 270 copies on Vélin de Rives, this being copy no. 140, of a total edition of 305 copies. Octavo (8 3/4 x 6 5/8 in.). 183, (2), (1, blank) pp., 16 b&w lithographed plates. Publisher's original wrappers, top edge trimmed, others rough. The purported erotic memoirs of the acclaimed German opera singer, originally posthumously published as Aus de Memoiren einer Sängerin in two volumes published c.1868-1875. The attribution to Schroeder-Devrient, who "dazzled Beethoven" (Kearney) is apocryphal; the first volume was likely written by Auguste Prinz, the publisher of the first edition, and seems realistic; the second is wild sexual fantasy. In any case, lesbianism, sadomasochism, group sex, sodomy, bestiality, scatology, necrophilia, prostitution, and vampirism appear before the curtain falls on this erotic aria in prose. "Hepley" is French literary historian and bibliographer, Louis Perceau. Painter, lithographer, and illustrator Louis Berthommé Saint-André (1905-1977) ".was especially a painter of women of all circles, preferably young and alluring.He also painted women in show business and those of pleasure" (Bénézit). He provided erotic illustrations for works by Verlaine, Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Diderot, Voltaire, de Musset, and others. Mildest wear and soiling to wrappers, spine lt.-mod. creased, otherwise a Near FIne copy. Dutel III, 1949; Pia 835.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Book is in fine condition in original paper wrap with two additional suites of lithographs. One set, still uncut of the smaller black-and-white illustrations, 12 sheets folded in quarto. The other set is in black-and-white of the color lithographs found throughout the text numbering 20. Housed in two-part slipcase without titles. Split to seam of inner part of the slipcase. Outer slipcase has edge-wear and some rubbing. Slipcase brown with an animal hide pattern. Text in French. 320/697. IB.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Half crushed morocco, 11 inches tall. A simple binding with gilt tooled titles, fleurons and top edge. One of 250 copies on 'velin de rives', this being number 245. With 13 explicit illustrations in black and white and 12 in colour, with an extra suite of the 12 colour lithographs. A fine copy.