[DEKOBRA (Ernest-Maurice Tessier, known as Maurice). - Lot 119

[DEKOBRA (Ernest-Maurice Tessier, known as Maurice). Les Strophes libertines du chevalier Naja. Original wood by Gécé. Priape: à l'Enseigne du Matou Couronné [Illustrated French edition, circa 1920]. In-8, paperback, filled cover. Edition of 92 copies plus a few copies on Alfa paper. This one on Hollande. First edition, distributed under cover, of this collection of 20 poems celebrating "a woman's buttocks, her lingerie and the pleasures that can be had either with an opulent, mature Messalina, or with a vicious fourteen-year-old child". Published by Édition française illustrée, it is illustrated with 19 woodcuts by Gérard Cochet, including 4 full-page ones. Letter from the author on the title page to "Charlie". Provenance: Library of Charles Malexis (1879-1959)