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95. [EROTICA] HANCARVILLE, Pierre Francois Hugues d’. monumens de la vie privée des douze césars, d’apres une suite de pierres gravées sous leur régne. Rome: De l’Imprimerie du Vatican. 1786.
£998
4to. bound in later full red morocco, triple gilt fillet borders to sides, gilt panelled spine with gilt centre tools, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, edges gilt; pp. xii + 236; frontispiece and 50 engraved plates, these printed on pale blue paper; occasional light browning to text, one plate has a vertical line at the fore-edge margin which appears to be an offset from an elastic band, otherwise a very nice copy, with wide margins, possibly a large paper copy.
hancarville (1719-1805) was born pierre-francois hugues, adding the title ‘baron’ and the aristocratic surname hancarville himself. together with William hamilton he compiled the magnificent 4-volume catalogue of ancient vases known as Les Antiquities d’Hancarville. Monumens de la vie privée des douse Césars (first published 1780) was the first of two pornographic volumes by hancarville published under fictitious imprints. it was followed in 1784 by Monumens du culte secret des dames romaines. these are not factual studies but works of fantasy and were widely pirated during his lifetime.
96. EVANS, Edmund. the illuminated scripture text book with interleaved diary for memoranda and a coloured illustration for every day. Frederick Warne & Co. 1880.
£298
75 x 110mm, in dark blue morocco backed ivory paper with brass edges and clasp, upper board elaborately decorated with gilt and blue borders with leaf curls enclosing the text in gilt green and red, with an embroidered silk panel of an forget-me-not. pages with colour printed
decorated biblical
quotations for each day. A fine copy of a very pretty book.
sixth edition, “new pictorial” edition “in every respect equal to its predecessors and in some points superior”. A choice example of victorian colour printing by one of its leading exponents edmund evans.
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97. FASHION. la mode feminine de 1795 a 1900. Paris : E?ditions Nilsson, [1920s].
£498
four portfolios of twenty pochoir plates, each in a decorated card slipcase, and having a separate title. no additional text. original slipcase worn, otherwise in very good condition.
each leaf consists of hand coloured ladies in various costumes, with the year of the costume at the bottom of the leaf.
98. [FASHION]. la mode par fried. Paris. 1918. £750
8vo., 16 fine loose hand coloured pochoir fashion plates in original grey sleeve. sleeve a little rubbed, ink mark to the verso of one plate, otherwise a near fine set.
“edition de guerre”, the first suite of fashion plates by otto fried issued in september 1918.
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