Beschreibung:

Verlaine (Paul) Femmes, number 4 of 122 copies, this copy for Princesse d'Hautancourt, with additional ink inscription on title "A mon amie la Princesse d'Hautancourt. Paul Verlaine", 18 erotic etched plates [by Frans de Geetere], tissue guards, some light spotting to text, original printed wrappers, uncut, glacine wrapper creased and frayed, n.p., [c.1926]; Les Amies, Filles, number 39 of 475 copies, this copy with an additional signed original pen & ink and watercolour drawing loosely inserted (usually only included in copies 1-13), 13 pochoir etched plates by Gustave Buchet with captioned tissue guards, loose as issued in original printed wrappers, uncut, a little soiled, Paris, 1921, 4to (2) ⁂ The first item is puzzling: numbers 3-22 should be on old Japon with an additional suite of plates on chine (which is not present here) and the inscription cannot be by Verlaine himself as he died in 1896. The etchings, however, are fine impressions.