MONTORGUEIL (Georges). - Lot 86

MONTORGUEIL (Georges). La Parisienne peinte par elle-même. Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1897. - In-8, 255x164: frontispiece, (1 blank f.), V, 199 pp. 20 plates, printed cover. Dark blue morocco, framed with gilt fillets, scrolls and fleurons, ornate ribbed spine, red morocco lining with framed gilt fillets and scrolls, dark blue moiré silk endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges, cover preserved, slipcase (Carayon). First edition limited to 150 numbered copies on Hollande wove paper, illustrated with 62 compositions by Henry SOMM, including 21 original out-of-text drypoints depicting different types of Parisian women (the housewife, the devout woman, the schoolteacher, the little laundress, the store girl, the acteuse, the demi-mondaine, the perverse, etc.). Superb copy in lined binding by Carayon, enriched with the publisher's letter to subscribers accompanied by an example of one of the book's pages. A very well preserved copy.