Les névroses - Les âmes - Les luxures - Les refuges - Les spectres - Les ténèbres

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies after ten on Japan and a few on China.
With frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by F. Desmoulin.
Half brown morocco with corners, smooth spine with mosaic heart-shaped havana morocco title and author labels covering a long floral spray in mosaic gilt with inlaid colored morocco petals and leaves, head and foot enhanced with five small circles gilt and inlaid with havana morocco, gilt fillet on covers, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges. Binding signed by Canape.
Our copy is enhanced with an autograph quatrain mounted on a stub: "Barbey d'Aurevilly: c'est la plume effroyable, la plume qui fait peur au papier frémissant. Car elle écrit les mots que lui dicte le Diable avec du Vitriol, des larmes et du sang!" ["Barbey d'Aurevilly: it is the dreadful pen, the pen that frightens the trembling paper. For it writes the words dictated by the Devil with Vitriol, tears and blood!"]. The note mirrors a remark by Barbey d'Aurevilly, his friend, who also called him a devil but a "Devil of steel".