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[CAMUSET, Georges]. Felicien ROPS, illustrator. ~ Les Sonnets du docteur. Paris: [Dijon: Darantière] chez la plupart des libraires, 1884.

8vo (206 × 145 mm), pp. 47, [1] plus engraved frontispiece by Clairin, lithographed letter facsimile and an etched plate (unsigned) by Rops. Original paper wrappers preserved in later half morocco. An excellent copy.

First edition, rare, one of 350 copies on Hollande (of a total edition of 500). A series of witty sonnets by a physician and bon viveur on medical subjects: constipation, condoms, bandages, worms, venereal disease and death.

Not in Wellcome or NLM.

£400


Keywords: french, illustrated, poetry

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