Les demi-vierges

Illustrated edition with 38 original compositions etched in black and sanguine, in and out of text, by Joseph-Marius Avy, one of 190 numbered copies on handmade laid paper, the only issue after 110 Japan.
Full chocolate brown morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, one band rubbed and slight scratches to spine, gilt roulettes to headcaps, caramel watered silk endpapers and pastedowns, three caramel and chocolate brown morocco fillets framing the pastedowns, following endpapers of handmade laid paper, covers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, double gilt fillets on edges with small nicks, elegant contemporary binding signed by Marcellin Lortic.
White endpapers of the binding soiled at foot and in their inner margins.