Viset Pseudonym (1 results)

2 frontispieces, 10 plates & 66 illustrations in the text. Limited, numbered edition. Small 4to. Volume 1 : endpaper, half- title/colophon, [2pp.], frontispiece, title, viii, [2pp.], p-11-240, [1p.], 5 engraved plates, 33 illustrations in the text. Volume 2 : endpaper, half- title/colophon, frontispiece, [2pp.], pp-3-356, [3pp.], 5 engraved plates, 33 illustrations in the text. All plates with integral tissue guards, in the original double-folded off-white wrapper, glued to an off- white fitted paper dustjacket with titles in black and red on the upper portion and spine, later glacine overwrappers[?], untrimmed edges, French text. One of 400 on Hollande Pannekoek from a numbered edition of 480 with the first 20 on Japon, the following 60 on Auvergne. Paris, Au Cabinet Du Livre, [Jean Fort], 1928, printed by Maurice Darantiere, 1927. £125.00 Provenance: from the collections of Jean Pierre Faur and Emmanuel Pierrat. Volume 2 largely uncut, loose leaf in first volume (as issued?), endemic browning of tissue guards, wrappers a bit browned with light foxing, wrapper torn on lower portion of first volume. Uncom- mon institutionally with six or so copies only on WorldCat, no copy in Kinsey. Not in Pia. Sheryl Straight notes, on her Erotic Bibliophile website, that '.Martin van Mae?le died before completing the illustrations for Les Dialogues, the frontispiece & two of the engravings are by Viset, a pseudonym used by Luc Lafnet'. One of many translations of the famous 'Ragionamenti' , published by Jean Fort . 218920.