[CURIOSA] ANONYMOUS [Paul Perre] - Le roman de mon alcôve Chez feu la Veuve Giroud, très connu au Palais Royal, 1890 - Probably one of the first editions of this very rare erotic work published anonymously and attributable to Paul Perret. Bound in orange half-percaline cloth with corners, blue morocco title-piece on spine, title and author in gilt. This copy is exceptionally enriched with a suite of 6 very free etchings, by a sure and experienced hand in the genre. The artist could not be identified with certainty, but it could be Frédillo (pseudonym of Louis-Alfred Boisserand), from whom we know a suite of etchings in the same taste for the Roman de Violette. No copies have been identified with this suite. "One of the most characteristic specimens of gallant literature at the end of the Second Empire" / "Le Roman de mon alcôve, first published in 1869, is, along with Un été à la campagne, L'Ecole des biches and Le Roman de Violette, one of the most characteristic specimens of gallant literature at the end of the Second Empire. (...) Ardent, hot-tempered, fond of evoking "happy minutes" and not at all squeamish, a young woman writes a confession of her sex life for her lover, who has asked her to do so" (Preface by Gustave Colline, pseudonym of Pierre Dufay). In-12, 123pp