SAINT-DESMOTOME Frénésie ou un fric-frac au bois, A Bagatell - Lot 181

SAINT-DESMOTOME Frénésie ou un fric-frac au bois, A Bagatelle, sous le Cygne de Léda, circa 1948, in-4 sheets, illustrated erotic book, folder and slipcase. Clandestine illustrated edition attributed to Saint-Desmotome, published under the fictitious address "A Bagatelle, sous le Cygne de Léda", typical of post-war French erotica. The work comprises 42 [6] pages and is illustrated with ten original etched compositions, including a color frontispiece, accompanied by bandeaux and culs-de-lampe. The edition is announced at 190 copies, this one printed on Arches vellum, with a suite of etchings in sepia (XIV). Jean de Sauteval, mentioned as illustrator, is the pseudonym of the physician Jean Morisot. The work is listed in the reference bibliographies of curiosa (Pia, Dutel).