{"id":1320,"date":"2012-10-05T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T14:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=1320"},"modified":"2012-11-02T15:41:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T19:41:37","slug":"maupassants-a-la-feuille-de-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2012\/10\/05\/maupassants-a-la-feuille-de-rose\/","title":{"rendered":"Maupassant&#8217;s A la feuille de rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post is part of\u00a0 an ongoing series featuring items from the newly-acquired Santo Domingo collection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We have another item from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2012\/09\/28\/a-revealing-look-into-the-julio-santo-domingo-collection\/\" target=\"_blank\">G\u00e9rard Nordmann\u2019s collection<\/a> this week. Guy de Maupassant\u2019s 1875 quasi-pornographic drama\u00a0<em>A la feuille de rose, maison turque <\/em>was published in this edition of 225 copies in 1945; Nordmann\u2019s copy was subsequently bound in this arresting magenta leather inset with panels of pink and rose snakeskin. The custom binding retains the book\u2019s original paper wrappers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/10\/Feuille-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1321\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/10\/Feuille-1-703x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/10\/Feuille-1-703x1024.jpg 703w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/10\/Feuille-1-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/10\/Feuille-1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Likely the most interesting feature of this volume, however, is its frontispiece: one leaf features an erotic illustration, while a second is decorated with stage doors and cut to allow the reader to open them onto the scene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/10\/Feuille-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1322\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/10\/Feuille-2-599x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/10\/Feuille-2-599x1024.jpg 599w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/10\/Feuille-2-175x300.jpg 175w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2012\/10\/Feuille-2.jpg 703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A la feuille de rose, maison turque:\u00a0com\u00e9die de moeurs (mauvaises) en un acte en prose repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e pour la premi\u00e8re fois \u00e0 Paris en 1875.\u00a0 <\/em>Paris: : [s.n.], 1945. <a href=\"http:\/\/hollis.harvard.edu\/?itemid=|library\/m\/aleph|006132804\" target=\"_blank\">FC8.M4452.945a (B).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to rare book cataloger Ryan Wheeler for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is part of\u00a0 an ongoing series featuring items from the newly-acquired Santo Domingo collection. We have another item from G\u00e9rard Nordmann\u2019s collection this week. Guy de Maupassant\u2019s 1875 quasi-pornographic drama\u00a0A la feuille de rose, maison turque was published in this edition of 225 copies in 1945; Nordmann\u2019s copy was subsequently bound in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[72627],"class_list":["post-1320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-santo-domingo-collection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-li","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1320"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1320\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}