[MUSSET, Alfred de] Gamiani ou Deux nuits d'excès. By Alcide, baron de M***. Montréal [i.e. Paris] G. Lebaucher [E. Gaucher c. 1900?] In-12 ; 6 h.-t. (lightly and evenly browned). Midnight-blue half-maroquin, marbled paper boards, gilt titled spine, gilt t. (minor spotting to spine, boards and cuts rubbed, minor defect to upper endpapers). Uncommon underground edition, illustrated with 1 frontispiece and 5 plates signed "G" followed by a numeral. Elias Gaucher (fl. c. 1898 - c. 1925) published numerous underground erotica in French and English, under various false addresses. Ref. Cp. Pia 554-sq, Perceau 16, Dutel 341-sq. On Gaucher, cf. "Introductory note", in: Kearney, P.J. - Notes towards a Bibliography of Elias Gaucher. Santa Rosa, 2019 (does not mention our edition). Attached, another edition of the same work: Gamiani by A.D.M. Brux, Librairie Leclercq-Moens, n.d. In-16. Br. uncut (print cover missing). Edition from the "fonds licencieux" of J.-B. Moens, under the relay cover of his successor and grandson Alex Leclercq (2 vols.)

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