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MONNIER (Henry). Les Bas-fonds de la société. (Documents pour servir à l'histoire de nos mœurs. [Brussels], [Kistemaeckers], [1880]. In-16 (13 x 9 cm) with [2] ff. 160 pp. and [1] f. (table). Midnight blue half-maroquin, ornate ribbed spine, gilt title, gilt fillet on covers, gilt head (period binding). Tiny edition of only 64 copies on fine paper, decorated with 8 pen-and-ink drawings by Félicien ROPS on Chine paper. The work, published in 1862, was condemned in May 1865 as an outrage to public morality and condemned to destruction ((Vicaire V, 1020; Carteret II, 173; Gay I, 358). A very fine copy.

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MONNIER (Henry). Les Bas-fonds de la société. (Documents pour servir à l'histoire de nos mœurs. [Brussels], [Kistemaeckers], [1880]. In-16 (13 x 9 cm) with [2] ff. 160 pp. and [1] f. (table). Midnight blue half-maroquin, ornate ribbed spine, gilt title, gilt fillet on covers, gilt head (period binding). Tiny edition of only 64 copies on fine paper, decorated with 8 pen-and-ink drawings by Félicien ROPS on Chine paper. The work, published in 1862, was condemned in May 1865 as an outrage to public morality and condemned to destruction ((Vicaire V, 1020; Carteret II, 173; Gay I, 358). A very fine copy.

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