LE LIVRE d'Eros : 100 gravures, monotypes et gouaches de P. Y. Trémois : poemes de Conon de Bethune [et al.] ...

LE LIVRE d'Eros : 100 gravures, monotypes et gouaches de P. Y. Trémois : poemes de Conon de Bethune [et al.] ; avec un texte nouveau de Marcel Béalu, une étude inédite de René Barotte et la participation de Henry Montherlant et Jean Rostand. Paris 1970, Club du Livre. 34 cm, pp. 268, [4], full-page illustrations. 100 + f. tabl. [88] with illustrations, including 1 original engraving (copperplate) signed by the artist ; publisher's binding : saffron leather with gilt on covers ; all in 2 book-shaped publisher's boxes : psk. with gilt title on spines.
Book of Eros, an artist's edition, one of 245 copies on Arches handmade paper, numbered VI to CCLI, with one original engraving and additional illustrated plates (une suite) on vellum. Copy no. LXXX signed by P.-Y. Trémois.Texts with erotic content by dozens of prominent French writers of various eras, enriched with illustrations by Pierre-Yves Trémois (1921-2020) - French illustrator, painter, printmaker and sculptor. The works made in various techniques are distinguished by subtle eroticism, and there is no lack of animalistic motifs corresponding to the content of the book. A trace of a slight! rubbing on the lower spine of one box, very good condition!