La Femme et La Pantin (Limited Edition)   

Pierre Louys - Edouard Chimot Illustrated

Published in Paris by Les Editions D'Art Devambez, 1928. Limited Edition of 125 examples on Arches paper, from the total number of 211 - from 5 states - with this copy being numbered 81. Originally published in wraps, this copy has been rebound in full grained leather, with gilt lining to the boards, however, the original wraps have been retained and bound in, as well as the spine strip. The banded spine is titled in gilt. Spine ends with scuffing, wear through at the board corners, the binding otherwise in good condition. Brown marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt, with the fore and lower edges untrimmed. Block sound, with light age toning, as expected for its 100 years. Wonderfully illustrated with sixteen original etchings in colour, engraved by Edouard Chimot, with captioned tissue guards present. This book was the eleventh produced by the Devambez Art Society. Packed weight in excess of 2kg. 

From the Collection of the Late Barry Humphries (1934-2023), Australian comedian, actor, author, and satirist renowned for creating larger-than-life characters including Dame Edna Everage, Sir Les Patterson.   

 La Femme et le Pantin is a novel by Pierre Lou s, first published in 1898. The novel takes place during the Carnival of Seville. Frenchman André Stévenol falls under the spell of a young Andalusian woman, Concepción Pérez. They exchange a quick sign of promise and immediately try to see each other again. André confesses this situation to his friend Don Mateo, who is startled and decides, in order to warn him, to tell him about his painful adventure with the young woman whose puppet he was.

The work is not an autobiography, but several scenes in the book are directly inspired by the author's travels, particularly in Spain (the train and the snow avalanches in the Pyrenees, the altercation between a young girl and a gypsy, the carnival in Seville...), but also by Casanova's relationship with the Charpillon, a London prostitute who ruins and cheats on him. In 1896, Pierre Lou s wrote the story L'Andalouse, which gave birth to La Femme et le Pantin.

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