![The Pearl. A Monthly Journal of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading. N.p.: n. p., July 1879- December 1880 [but Amsterdam: Augustin Brancart, c.1890].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_10773_0147_001(the_pearl_a_monthly_journal_of_facetiae_and_voluptuous_reading_np_n_p012831).jpg?w=1)
![The Pearl. A Monthly Journal of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading. N.p.: n. p., July 1879- December 1880 [but Amsterdam: Augustin Brancart, c.1890].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_10773_0147_000(the_pearl_a_monthly_journal_of_facetiae_and_voluptuous_reading_np_n_p010306).jpg?w=1)
Details
The Pearl. A Monthly Journal of Facetiae and Voluptuous Reading. N.p.: n. p., July 1879- December 1880 [but Amsterdam: Augustin Brancart, c.1890].
18 parts bound in one volume, octavo (232 x 153 mm). Printed on laid paper watermarked 'Gerhart Loeber'. 35 hand-coloured wood engravings (perhaps of 36) printed on thick wove paper. (Some plates with light scattered spotting, text leaves facing plates lightly darkened, occasional light soiling.) 20th-century red half morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments and titled directly in one of these, top edge gilt, others untrimmed.
ONE OF ONLY THREE KNOWN COPIES OF THIS EDITION OF 'THE QUINTESSENTIAL VICTORIAN EROTIC MAGAZINE' (Scheiner). This very rare second edition, the only available illustrated edition, was printed by Brancart from the legendarily rare first edition published by Lazenby which is known in one example only (Nordmann copy, sold, Christie's Paris, 14-15 December 2006). This miscellany of pornographic verse and prose fiction which mimics the main literary and cultural journals of the Victorian period was published, like them, in illustrated monthly instalments. William Lazenby, publisher and part author, was among the most prolific purveyors of pornography in the late Victorian period. In the 'Apology' which introduces Part 1 Lazenby reveals that not only profit but satiric subversion of a hypocritical culture was an important motivation in publishing The Pearl. Brancart made hand-coloured woodcut illustrations from the original colour lithographs and, like Lazenby, issued his edition in parts. The present copy collects these original parts; it is a tall, well-margined example with deckle edges. The Brancart edition is often confused with the later edition printed, without plates, by Berger in Rotterdam around 1910. This copy is one of only two in private hands; a third copy is in the British Library (31 plates only). Mendes 50-A (the 36th plate listed by Mendes may have been added when Brancart later issued left-over parts gathered in three volumes with an additional general title); Scheiner 126; Pia Enfer, 1103 (an incomplete reprint); cf. Ashbee Catena, 343-356 (first edition); cf. Éros invaincu 78.
18 parts bound in one volume, octavo (232 x 153 mm). Printed on laid paper watermarked 'Gerhart Loeber'. 35 hand-coloured wood engravings (perhaps of 36) printed on thick wove paper. (Some plates with light scattered spotting, text leaves facing plates lightly darkened, occasional light soiling.) 20th-century red half morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments and titled directly in one of these, top edge gilt, others untrimmed.
ONE OF ONLY THREE KNOWN COPIES OF THIS EDITION OF 'THE QUINTESSENTIAL VICTORIAN EROTIC MAGAZINE' (Scheiner). This very rare second edition, the only available illustrated edition, was printed by Brancart from the legendarily rare first edition published by Lazenby which is known in one example only (Nordmann copy, sold, Christie's Paris, 14-15 December 2006). This miscellany of pornographic verse and prose fiction which mimics the main literary and cultural journals of the Victorian period was published, like them, in illustrated monthly instalments. William Lazenby, publisher and part author, was among the most prolific purveyors of pornography in the late Victorian period. In the 'Apology' which introduces Part 1 Lazenby reveals that not only profit but satiric subversion of a hypocritical culture was an important motivation in publishing The Pearl. Brancart made hand-coloured woodcut illustrations from the original colour lithographs and, like Lazenby, issued his edition in parts. The present copy collects these original parts; it is a tall, well-margined example with deckle edges. The Brancart edition is often confused with the later edition printed, without plates, by Berger in Rotterdam around 1910. This copy is one of only two in private hands; a third copy is in the British Library (31 plates only). Mendes 50-A (the 36th plate listed by Mendes may have been added when Brancart later issued left-over parts gathered in three volumes with an additional general title); Scheiner 126; Pia Enfer, 1103 (an incomplete reprint); cf. Ashbee Catena, 343-356 (first edition); cf. Éros invaincu 78.
Special notice
No VAT on hammer price or buyer's premium.
Brought to you by
Eugenio Donadoni