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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. [A Summer in The Country: correspondence Between Two Young Parisian Women, Collected by a Fashionable Author. New Edition Illustrated with Twelve Engraved Plates by A. Van Troizem]. Illustrated with fine erotic plates by van Maele. 12mo., endpaper, half-title, frontispiece, title with fleuron, [1p.], pp-2-186, 10 engraved plates only of the 12 called for, in the original cream paper wrapper with titles in black and red on the upper portion within a red bordered box with a vignette in black, titles in black on spine, later glacine with a clipped bookseller note attached to inside front, loosely inserted coated paper line drawn plate from a German edition[?], French text. A Mytilene, [Paris], chez les libraires associes,[Duflou and Briffaut], Les Chefs- d Oeuvre de la Litterature Galante, n.d., 1920. £375.00 Lacks two plates although Perceau collates for only 11, light endemic browning. Very rare in both commerce and institutionally with one copy only on World- Cat, no copy at BnF (strangely). No copy in Harvard which has an earlier and also clandestine edi- tion with plates by Frans de Geetere in the Santo Domingo collection. Dutel 252, Perceau 35-14, Pia 1464. Provenance: from the collections of Jean Pierre Faur and Emmanuel Pierrat. Sapphic and other romantic and erotic letters between Adele and Albertine. The plates are very beautifully rendered but also at times very transgressive indeed. It is common curiosa knowledge in the trade that Auguste Poulet-Malassis wrote at least part of this text. 219528.