[SILVESTRE] [PROSTITUTION] Berthe LEROY - Memoirs (Maison My - Lot 191

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[SILVESTRE] [PROSTITUTION] Berthe LEROY - Memoirs (Maison My - Lot 191
[SILVESTRE] [PROSTITUTION] Berthe LEROY - Memoirs (Maison Mystère). [Illustrations by J. E. SILVESTRE]. Bruxelles, Henry Kistemaeckers, "Les Matrones, mères abbesses et entremetteuses fin de siècle", 1895. In-8: 292 pp. (Small browning at intersection of several ff. in upper margin). Bound in Jansenist red chagrin, spine ribbed, gilt head, illustrated cover preserved. First edition. COPY ENRICHED WITH: 1. 1 refused drawing by Silvestre for the cover. Flying proof, annotations in ink and pencil on verso. 19 x 12 cm. 2. Of 1 pencil frontispiece, signed J. E. Silvestre. 3. 1 black drawing, p. 13. 4. From 1 watercolor drawing, p. 65, showing a woman in a suggestive position. 5. 1 erotic etching, opposite p. 83. 6. 1 watercolor drawing, p. 94. 7. From 2 small watercolor drawings, pp. 116-117. 8. 1 erotic etching, p. 262. Bearing the initials "J.E. S." in red pencil in the margin. 9. From 1 watercolor drawing, p. 273. 10. D'1 dessin à l'aquarelle, p. 292. "Madame Leroy, a former inmate of the Centrale de Clermont, was a well-known pimp in Paris at the end of the last century in the same way as Madame Gourdan in the previous century. Her daughter, Berthe Leroy, has left a memoir... in which, as well as recounting her own gallant adventures, she gives many details of the brothels and rendezvous houses in France and England, and of the matchmaking mores of her time." Ref. Colette Baudet, Grandeur et misères d'un éditeur belge : Henry Kistemaeckers, pp. 201-202.
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