Dulac, Jean Les dessous du demi-siècle. Illustrations by Jean Dulac. S.l. aux dépens d'un amateur (imp. Lyon, Audin 1956) In-4° (small abrasion with tear without loss to 1 f. pp. 23-24, part. uncut). Br. in full illustrated cover and publisher's slipcase (some soiling to slipcase). 16 h.t. compositions, including 1 on the front, photographed and colored by the Vairels in Paris, 8 carmine headpieces and qqs in-text in black, cover illustrated with a color vignette. Edition of 1,500 copies (excluding 50 reserved for collaborators) on vellum, the only paper, one of 150 (no. 1123) with a color suite and a black suite. An amusing erotic evocation of women's undergarments from the Belle Époque to the mid-1950s. Ref. Monod 3717.

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