LA GALERIE DES FEMMES; Collection incomplate de huit tableau, recueillis par un amateur. Illustrations de Siaens by Etienne De Jouy, Victor-Joseph - 1957

[Bruxelles]: Editions J.-L. Kellinckx, 1957. Printed at Anvers. In loose signatures, and card wrapper and slipcase as issued. Slipcase bumped at corners and with two small splits at open end, otherwise a very nice copy indeed. Large 8vo. 215 pp. Six colour plates, vignettes in purple throughout the text and with a facsimile of letter from the bibliophile Charles Monselet (dated 1869), concerning the authorship of this work. No. 446 of 1000 numbered copies. A handsome reprint of an erotic French work that was originally published at 'Hamburg' [i.e. Paris] in 1799. A copy of the present edition-no. 408 of the limitation-is in the British Library's erotica collection at P.C. 15. d. 13.