{"id":1923,"date":"2013-03-13T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T18:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2013-03-06T14:06:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T19:06:03","slug":"book-of-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2013\/03\/13\/book-of-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo collection.<\/em><\/p>\n

The opium dens prevalent in France and the United States during the 19th<\/sup> century, as well as the culture surrounding them, resulted in copious literature, such as this rarely-seen work: Le livre de la fum\u00e9e<\/em>, by French author, musicologist, and student of Chinese culture Louis Laloy. This treatise on opium\u2019s use and history both domestically and in China features a preface by Claude Farr\u00e8re, author of the novel Fum\u00e9e d\u2019opium<\/a>. <\/em>It was published in 1915 by Dorbon-Ain\u00e9 in a lavish limited edition of 220 numbered copies with illustrations throughout. The Santo Domingo Collection includes several of the 220 copies; the one shown here is bound in full tan morocco with gilt stamping and embroidered cloth endsheets by the French bindery Marius Michel. The binding preserves the publisher\u2019s original wrappers, themselves sumptuously illustrated in color.<\/p>\n

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Louis Laloy. Le livre de la fum\u00e9e<\/em>.\u00a0Paris: Dorbon-a\u00een\u00e9, 1913. HV5816.L346 1913x (C)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to rare book cataloger Ryan Wheeler for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo collection. The opium dens prevalent in France and the United States during the 19th century, as well as the culture surrounding them, resulted in copious literature, such as this rarely-seen work: Le livre de la fum\u00e9e, by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TUly-v1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","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=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}