Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

(Jousson, Pierre). Erotiques.

Suite of 37 photographs on plates, interleaved by text plates. Altogether 46 leaves, last blank. Oblong 4to. Loose plates as issued in cloth sleeve and slipcase. – N. pl., La Balance, 1967.

First edition. „Cet ouvrage confidentiel a été tiré à quelques exemplaires pour des amis“. Printed on Arches wove paper. The plates show a couple of man and woman in different sexual positions. The texts are from Louise Labé and Pierre de Ronsard. The portfolio was privately published without mentionig the name of the photographer and without an exact limitation. When the portfolio was reissued in Paris in 1968 by Régine Desforges/L’Or du Temps, it became suddenly prohibited. – Best.-Nr. 19100