329. [Flagellation]. Set of 8 books on the subject. - Lot 329

329. [Flagellation]. Set of 8 books on the subject. - SACHER-MASOCH (Leopold Ritter Von). La Vénus à la fourrure. A novel about flagellation. Paris, Charles Carrington, 1902. In-8 paperback, printed cover illustrated with a vignette. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Bakalowicz, and numerous figures in the text. First French edition, a work dating from 1869, translated by Ledos de Beaufort, and printed in an edition of 500 numbered copies on Hollande paper. A fine copy. - VIRMAITRE (Charles). Les Flagellants et les flagellés de Paris. Paris, Carrington, 1902. In-8 paperback, untrimmed. First edition on Hollande laid paper. Charles Virmaitre (1835-1903) was a French historian, lexicographer and journalist who wrote extensively on working-class Paris, cabarets, prisons and brothels, prostitution and more. This is his last work. - REBELL (Hugues)] under the pseudonym Jean de Villiot. Chastised women. The confessor. The spanking matchmaker. Love wants victims. Girls to be married. Sidonie. Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles parisiens, 1903. In-8 br. 255 p., untrimmed, uncut. First edition. Edition of 500 numbered copies. Attractive edition with text framed in a double red frame with vegetal ornamentation. - REBELL (Hugues). Chastened women. Second series. Gringalette. Cinq histoires vécues sur la flagellation. Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles parisiens, 1905. In-8 paperback, 276 p., [1] f. First edition. Edition of 505 copies, one of 500 on Hollande laid paper, but not numbered. Attractive edition, the text surrounded by a double red frame with plant ornamentation. - ANSON (Marguerite, pseud. of James Glass BERTRAM). A society of flagellants. Reminiscences and revelations of a high-class soubrette. Paris, C. Carrington, 1902. In-8 paperback, untrimmed, 298 p., [1] f. Illustrations by Martin Van Maele and Adolphe Lambrecht. Illustrated front cover. Second edition of the translation by Jean de Villiot. Minor foxing. - VINDAS (Maurice de). Le rêve d'un flagéllant. Paris, Librairie franco-anglaise, 1921. In-8 paperback, 223 p. with color frontispiece, 8 hors-texte and numerous sketches in the text, illus. filled cover. 4-page publisher's catalog advertising the work: "A work of disturbing psychology and a most engaging read. (...) The author wanted to prove that contradiction is always the best ferment of love. If he indicates somewhat rigorous means, it's to better support his thesis. - FLOGGER (A.W.). Ladies' poker. Suite des confidences d'un baronnet. Paris, Collection des orties blanches, 1929. In-8, paperback, 321 p., [2] p., 12 plates including frontispiece. Edition of 1,000 numbered copies, reserved for subscribers to the Collection des Orties blanches. The illustration is by Jim Black, heteronym of Luc Lafnet (1899-1939). Lafnet was a Belgian painter, illustrator and cartoonist, who contributed to the creation of Spirou. He illustrated many works under his own name, but is best known for his illustrations of numerous small-print erotica under various pseudonyms, most notably Jim Black for his illustrations in the Les Orties Blanches collection, devoted to works of flagellation.