LE PETIT

L’ESCOLE DE L’INTEREST

Claude LE PETIT

Illustrator: Jean Gradassi

Paris, 1960

21 x 16 cm. Slipcase

First contemporary edition based on the text of the original edition of 1662.

Luxury edition for bibliophiles adorned with 12 charming humorous & erotic illustrations out of text by the miniaturist painter Jean Gradassi, all colored with a stencil. (The hand coloring was carried out by Roger Antic Enlumineur d’Art in Paris).

Also includes “The Brothel of the Muses, or the Nine Fucking Maids”

Edition of 490 copies, all on arches vellum, this one of 195 including the final state (n362).

Claude Le Petit, born in Paris in 1638 and executed in Paris on September 1, 1662, is a French writer. […] This atheist, libertine and free-thinker was quickly put on trial. Not for his verbal licenses, his gay verses or his libidinous and lustful portraits but for the questioning of the morals of the royal family of Mazarin. […]

AUTHOR: Claude Le Petit [Gradassi]
TITLE: The School of Interest and the University of Love. The Cabarets of Paris.
Paris, Editions Eryx, Editeurs d’Art, 1960. In-8 (20 x 15 cm), 165 pages, 3 ff. (table of engravings, table of texts, finished printing)
In sheets in a folded folder in coral embossed paper, and publisher’s slipcase covered in moiré paper with gilded titles on the back of the folder-case.
Very good state. Slightly yellowed casing on the back and on the covers of the case.