Die Bonbonnière. Galante und artige Sammlung erotischer Phantasien von Choisy le Conin [- Der Hirschpark. Galante und artige Sammlung duftiger Phantasien von Emil Sartori], mit Paraphrasen in Poesie und Prosa von Amadée de la Houlette.

(Vienna & Leipzig, C.W. Stern), [c. 1907]

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5 vol., folio: [2]-67 ff.; 30 pl. with printed winds (winds missing in vol. 3, occ. foxing mainly marginal).

In ff. Under publ. delivery covers (spine cloth-reinforced on 2 covers). Very good copy.

First issue of this suite of 30 erotic engr. aquatinta plates of which 12 by Franz von Bayros (1866-1924), under his pseudonym of Choisy Le Conin, and 18 by E. Sartori. The first was one of the leading Austrian Jugendstil artists, often compared to Beadsley or Rops. Issued in 530 numb. copies reserved to the subscribers (n. 322). A phantasmagoric imagery illustrating erotic poetry by Franz Blei.
Ref. Nordmann I:48 (24 pl.).