Jeanne-Maurice Pouquet - Reliure en cuir à coins attribuée à Lavigne - Le Salon de Madame Arman de Caillavet - EO 1/200 sur papier de Madagascar - 1926

Jeanne-Maurice Pouquet, Le Salon de Madame Arman de Caillavet, ses amis : Anatole France, Cdt Rivière, Jules Lemaître, Pierre Loti, Marcel Proust, etc., etc., preface by Gabriel Hanotaux, of the French Academy.
Edition: “On sale from the author and at Librairie Hachette,” Paris, 1926.

Print run: 1,280 copies, i.e. 30 on Imperial Japan paper (numbers 1–30), 50 on Hollande (numbers 31–80), 200 on Madagascar paper (numbers 81–280) and 1,000 on Gaillard vellum (numbers 281–1280). Our copy bears no. 120, thus on Madagascar paper.

Illustrations: frontispiece (portrait of Mme Arman de Caillavet) and plates hors texte as reproductions, the facsimiles of letters and dedications by Anatole France, and a photograph of Mme de Caillavet in her salon.

Binding: blue half-leather with corners, spine with four raised bands and two leather title pieces (“J. M. Pouquet” and “Le Salon de Madame Arman de Caillavet”) and gilded “1926” at the tail, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, gilt top, bookmark. Original covers and spine: not visible in photos. Original covers preserved.

- Dimensions: 15 x 19.4 cm
- Condition: Very nice overall, interior fresh, spine slightly dried and rare signs of use. See photos for details.
- Page count: 272 pages

This work is part of a set of about forty erotic books and curiosities bound in a homogeneous style, essentially in banded bindings: the leather covers the back and a leather strip runs along the gutter, and the centers of the boards are adorned with decorative paper.
One of the volumes bears, on the first white guard, the ink-stamped mark “L. Lavigne-Rel.” The trade of old books knows this binder from several signed bindings, notably on editions from the 1940s. The other volumes, of the same workmanship, are attributed to him. Some boards are decorated with original drawings enhanced with colors, unsigned.

The coherence of the set suggests that it is either the binder’s personal library, or that of an enthusiast who had his books bound in his workshop. No documentation currently provides a decisive answer. The set is dispersed individually. Sale restricted to adults.

Careful shipping in a rigid, watertight carton.