{"id":2316,"date":"2013-06-13T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T14:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2013-06-06T16:46:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T20:46:07","slug":"leonor-finis-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2013\/06\/13\/leonor-finis-o\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u00e9onor Fini&#8217;s O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/06\/Histoire2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2317\" style=\"margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/06\/Histoire2-1-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"220\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><em>This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The infamous erotic novel <em>Histoire d\u2019O<\/em> has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2012\/12\/04\/leather-and-lace\/\" target=\"_blank\">featured in this space before<\/a>, but this version is striking enough to warrant revisiting: a 40-centimeter large-format edition of 350 numbered copies published by Cercle du Livre Pr\u00e9cieux in 1962, eight years after the original publication. The edition is illustrated in evocative drawings and watercolors by L\u00e9onor Fini, and issued as an unbound portfolio. This copy, formerly owned by Swiss erotica collector G\u00e9rard Nordmann, is outfitted with a black velvet-covered slipcase, in keeping with its general opulence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/06\/Histoire2-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2318\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/06\/Histoire2-3-746x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/06\/Histoire2-3-746x1024.jpg 746w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/06\/Histoire2-3-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/06\/Histoire2-3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/06\/Histoire2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2327\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/06\/Histoire2-2-756x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/06\/Histoire2-2-756x1024.jpg 756w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/06\/Histoire2-2-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/files\/2013\/06\/Histoire2-2.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pauline R\u00e9age.<em> Histoire d\u2019O<\/em>.\u00a0Paris: Cercle du livre pr\u00e9cieux, 1962. <a href=\"http:\/\/hollis.harvard.edu\/?itemid=|library\/m\/aleph|013665164\" target=\"_blank\">PQ2635.E15 H5 1962<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to rare book ca<\/em><em>taloger Ryan Wheeler for contributing this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. 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