Physiologie de L'Amour Moderne.

Paris, Georges Crés et Cie, 1917.. Large 12º (19.6 x 14 cm.), contemporary morocco by Taffin (a few scratches and minor rubbing), spine with raised bands in six compartments, gilt author and title lettered in second compartment from top, date in gilt at foot, inner dentelles richly gilt, marbled endleaves, gilt fillets on edges of covers, top edge of text block gilt, other edges uncut, original printed wrappers bound in. Number 38 of 48 copies on "Japon Impérial" paper (6 of which were "hors commerce"), numbered 14 through 55 and 56 through 61, respectively. There were also 5 copies on "vieuz Japon Impérial" numbered 1 through 5; 8 copies on "Chine" number 6 through 13; and 1149 copies on "papier des manufactures de Rives (of which 50 were "hors commerce"), numbered 62 through 1160 and 1161 through 1210, respectively. In very good condition. Unidentified contemporary lithograph bookplate. xviii, 522 pp., (1 l. colophon). *** Study of "modern love" as seen by some of the writers of the time, i.e. Sand, Flaubert, Chateaubriand, etc.***