{"id":2366,"date":"2013-06-20T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/?p=2366"},"modified":"2013-06-11T16:29:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:29:41","slug":"le-sire-de-chamblay-counterfeited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/houghtonmodern\/2013\/06\/20\/le-sire-de-chamblay-counterfeited\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Sire de Chamblay, counterfeited"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

The French poet and novelist Edmond Haraucourt began his career with a volume of poems, La l\u00e9gende des sexes: po\u00ebmes hyst\u00e9riques<\/em>, first published in 1882. The poems were controversial for their time, and Haraucourt published under the pseudonym Le Sire de Chamblay \u2013 though he gave the game partly away by parenthesizing (Edmond H\u2026) below that name.<\/p>\n

While the original edition, printed privately for the author, was limited to 212 copies, the copy featured here is even rarer: a counterfeited reprint of that edition, limited to 200 copies and probably printed closer to 1910. There are two key differences between the two: first, the original edition mentions the twelve additional copies on Japon paper in its colophon and bears the author\u2019s initials, while the counterfeit edition does neither; second, the counterfeit edition includes a suite of colored engravings, believed to be by artist Martin van Maele, that also accompany some copies of a 1921 clandestine edition of the work.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As with much of the erotica in the Santo Domingo Collection, this copy was formerly owned by the Swiss collector G\u00e9rard Nordmann. The binding (below) reflects its former owner\u2019s taste for extravagance, with a rose design that combines the prurient with the botanical.<\/p>\n

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Edmond Haraucourt. La l\u00e9gende des sexes<\/em>.\u00a0Imprim\u00e9 \u00e0 Bruxelles pour l’auteur: [s.n.], 1882. PQ2615.A7 L44 1882x<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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