[CURIOSA] - HARAUCOURT (Edmond). The Legend of the Sexes. Hysterical poems. 1882. copy printed in Brussels for the author, in Paris: Au clos Bruneau, 1921. - In-8, paperback, filled cover. Dutel 1839*. Beautiful edition printed at 303 copies, illustrated with a free frontispiece after an engraving by Félicien ROPS. One of 300 on Arches laid paper. UNIQUE EDITION, enriched with 25 original watercolors in colors of the period, unsigned, of very beautiful bills, appearing in the margins or full page and representing humorous and often erotic subjects. The copy is also enriched with an original portrait of Haraucourt in India ink, dated 1930 and signed by the draftsman and caricaturist Georges Villa (1883-1965), one of the figures of Montmartre during the Roaring Twenties, as well as an etched portrait of the author by F. Desmoulin, on Japanese paper, and a suite of 6 of the 13 free figures by André Collot for the 1935 edition of "Seduction", printed in black on Arches vellum with remarks. A well preserved copy, despite some soiling to the cover. Sometimes attached to this edition are 12 free etchings by Martin Van Maele, which are not included here.