Author: MUSSET, ALFRED DE,
Title: Les Deux Maitresses. Eaux-Fortes de Cerutti. [First edition, thus].
Description: Paris, Éditions de Mouflon, s.d. [circa], 1950, 1910. Small 4°. Origina thin blank wrappers, original dustjacet with covertitle and coloured heart-shape device. Hftitle (verso blank). Ti-p. printed with monochrome and red coloured decorative type, coloured publ. device at tail. 135pp. in quires as orig. publ., 10 very fine tinted coloured softtone etched plates after watercolours by Cerutti with romantic sceneries, coloured initials, large red coloured head-pieces, red coloured decorative end-pieces. In a private contemporary blue cloth covered boards box. Colophon. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies printed on Vélin de Marais, with wide margins. This copy bears Nr. 310/ French language novel in which and erotic relation between two women and a young [french] Dandyis explored and without any moral assessment expressed by Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay, 1810-1857. famous french dramatist, poet and novelist. Along with his poetry he is known for his wriging The Confession of a Child of the Century (autobiographical, 1836), in which, amongs other things, the tale of his celebrated love affair with George Sand. 1833-1835, is told. Very fine untrimmed copy, printed on large paper, with original DUSTJACKET. (spine of dustjacket skilfully replated).

Keywords: literature french france alfredmusset love affaire dandeiism dandy maitresses culture heritage tale story loveaffair george sand eroticism erotica