THE BOOK OF EROS

THE BOOK OF EROS. Illustrated book of 100 engravings, monotypes and gouaches by P.Y. TREMOIS. Paris, Le Club du Livre, 1970. 31 x 31 cm. Formwork 34 x 34 cm., copy on beautiful rag vellum from Papeteries de Lana in slipcase, No. 3062 out of 6300 printed. 268 pages. Golden upper edge. Good condition.
Bound in full skin coral-orange basane leather with covers decorated with stamped gold motifs, made by Jacques EBRARD after a model by Mario PRASSINOS. Smooth spine titled in black letters.
Casing in black skivertex sheepskin with gold title on the edge, black canvas boards.
Selection of love poems by the greatest poets from the Middle Ages to the present day, brought together and presented by Alain BOSQUET: Conon de Béthune, Bernard de Ventadour, Jean Molinet, François 1er, Clément MarotMaclou de La Haye, Joachim du Bellay, Jean -Antoine de Baif, Louise Labé, Pierre de Ronsard, Etienne Pasquier, Olivier de Magny, Jean Rus, Etienne Jodelle, François de Maynard, Tristan L'Hermite, Jean Auvray, Théophile de Viau, Pierre de Marbeuf, Jean de La Fontaine, Molière, Voltaire, Mirabeau, Parny, Victor Hugo, Gérard de Nerval, Alfred de Musset, Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Germain Nouveau, Paul Valéry, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Eluard, André Breton, Robert Desnos.
Text by Marcel Béalu, study by René Barotte and testimonies by Henry de Montherlant and Jean Rostand, of the French Academy.

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