LOUŸS (Pierre). Aphrodite. Mœurs antiques. Paris : Société du Mercure de France, 1896. - In-8, 221 x 139 : (4 ff.), XII pp., (1 f.), 332 pp., (1 f.), printed cover. Red morocco, quadruple gilt fillet on the boards, ornate spine, quadruple gilt fillet inside, gilt head, untrimmed, cover retained (Franz). Second edition, called "luxury edition", published a few months after the original published by the same publisher. It was printed at 609 copies. This one is one of the 550 numbered copies on vellum paper, enriched with an autograph letter signed by Pierre Louÿs addressed to his close friend, the painter, designer and decorator Maxime Dethomas (1867-1929): To Maxime Dethomas // his friend // Pierre LouÿsVery nice copy bound at the time by Ostermann Franz.