GYP

First edition on ordinary paper.
Copy slightly warped, some light foxing to edges.
Bradel binding in half bottle-green cloth, smooth spine decorated with central gilt fleuron, date and double gilt fillet at foot, fawn shagreen title-label with some small lacks, original wrappers preserved, corners bumped, contemporary binding.
Autograph inscription signed by Gyp to Aurélien Scholl.

New edition, thousand mention.
Nice copy.
Binding half cartonnage vellum style, smooth back adorned with golden edging on the head and tail, title piece of orange shagreen, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved cover, binding of the era signed by J. Chevron, binder at Provins.
autograph dedication of the author autograph of Gyp to Madame Prunier in violet ink.

First edition, no mention of deluxe copies.
Worming and a tear at head of spine, small tears at head and foot of joints, angular lack to rear board, occasional light foxing.

First edition of which there were no deluxe copies.
Full light grey cardboard binding, smooth spine, burgundy shagreen title-label, joints slightly cracked at head and foot, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Autograph inscription by Gyp in purple ink.
Work illustrated with 100 photographs from nature.

Féminies. Huit chapitres inédits dévoués à la femme, à l'amour,
à la beauté Edition illustrated of 8 frontispieces in color by Félicien Rops in a double state (black and color) and printed in 183 numbered copies on Japan paper, ours under the name of Louis Bourdery.
Full navy blue shagreen, the spine is richly embellished in a gilt typographic pattern as well as of a nude golden woman, gilded frieze on the head and on the foot, gilt fillets on the spine head, framed with quadruple gilt fillets on the covers, gilt ripples forming four by four rings at an angle of the covers, the end pages and the fly pages in decorative marbled paper with a gilt floral pattern in the corner, illustrated wrappers and spine preserved, gilt trimming on the top and the foot of the head band, binding of the time.
The book is illustrated in frames and panels by Rudnicki, cover illustrated by George de Feure.
Some small light foxing affecting mainly the serpentes.