Les Sonnets du docteur. Enriched with 43 original watercolors by Emile Delphes Chabod. First edition.
Dijon: Imprimerie Darantière. 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. Signed. Very Good. Item #44846
4to [250 x 157mm]. Modern marbled paper boards, original printed wrappers bound in. Les Sonnets du Docteur. Paris: chez la plupart des libraires, [colophon:] Imprimé par Darantière à Dijon, 1884. Half title, etched frontispiece by G. Clairin, facsimile letter from Charles Monselet, etched plate by Felicien Rops (Rouir, no. 492.5; Exsteens, no. 502) at the end, text within single rule border with varying typographical headpieces throughout (some very light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Limited to 500 copies per colophon. One of 25 copies on Japon impérial. A unique copy, containing 43 fine original watercolors in the margins by Emile Delphes Chabod comprising 29 in watercolor and 14 pen-and-wash drawings in bistre, with several signed by the artist. The illustrations range from the decorative and charming to the ribald and bawdy, reflecting the nature of a number of the sonnets: Massage, Maladies Secretes, Preservatifs, Bonbon Laxatif and Constipation and several with sexual and gastronomic themes. Vicaire II, 38; Carteret, IV, p. 86. Chabod was a pupil of Émile Signol and Jean-Léon Gérôme and exhibited regularly at the Salons between 1868 and 1881 (see Bénezit).
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