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[all published]. [The Gardens of Delightful Tortures. The Four Thursdays. Barbara. Breaking-in. The Spicy Brunette]. Volumes I-IV. 58 monochrome lithographs. First collected edition. 4to. unpaginated; all collate as endpaper, blank, limitation leaf, half-title, title followed by the illustrations and text thus; I ? 50ll., II ? 38ll., III ? 69ll., IV ? 14ll., largely with all but one or two leaves printed on rectos only in each volume, an illustrated facsimile of the manuscript, in the original blue, red, green and terracotta cloth covered boards, respectively, with gilt stamped titles and monogram on upper portions and spines. From a limited edition of 500 numbered copies on ve?lin speciale de Hollande signed by the author-illustrator. Rotterdam, Editions Bel-Rose, 1970. £600.00 Near fine. Very rare in both commerce and institutions, we can only find one complete set, at the BnF. Provenance: from the Bibliothe?ques of Jean-Pierre Faur and Emmanuel Pierrat. These cult, satirical, illustrated sadomasochistic books largely depict dominant twenties women, punishing, humiliating and using men (and sometimes ?sissied' men being used by other 'sissies' ). The author remains a mystery to this day, perhaps making these ?signed' books quite desirable ortho- graphically. 219366.…