548 - Fendi, P. Forty erotic watercolors in facsimile reproduction. With a portrait of Peter Fendi by Josef Danhauser and an introduction by Karl Meder. Leipzig, privately printed (Vienna, Stern), 1910. 5 leaves, 1 blank leaf. With 1 mounted portrait and 40 mounted color plates. Folio. Original half-parchment portfolio with rich gilt tooling on spine and front cover and 2 ties (scuffed, somewhat bumped, 1 tailpiece cracked).

Fendi, P. Forty erotic watercolors in facsimile reproduction. With a portrait of Peter Fendi by Josef Danhauser and an introduction by Karl Meder. Leipzig, privately printed (Vienna, Stern), 1910. 5 leaves, 1 blank leaf. With 1 mounted portrait and 40 mounted color plates. Folio. Original half-parchment portfolio with rich gilt tooling on spine and front cover and 2 ties (scuffed, somewhat bumped, 1 tailpiece cracked). Hayn/Gotendorf IX, 162; Stern-Szana 247: 'Extremely rare original edition'. - One of 600 numbered copies, printed for a small circle of subscribers on laid paper. - The explicit and humorous depictions show various sexual encounters and acrobatic lovemaking. - Occasionally, there is doubt about Fendi's authorship of these watercolors. - White outer margins partly slightly finger-marked. - All plates with embossed stamp (rooster with coat of arms) in the wide white margin.