LOUŸS (Pierre) - COLLIN (Raphaël). Aphrodite. Mœurs antiques. Paris: Librairie des amateurs, A. Ferroud, F. Ferroud, successeur, 1909. - Large in-8, 280 x 210: frontispiece, (2 ff.), VIII, 281 pp, (2 ff.), 4 plates, printed cover. Paperback, lined cover. Deluxe edition, corrected by the author, illustrated with 43 compositions by Raphaël COLLIN (1850-1916), wood-engraved in color by Ernest Florian, including one frontispiece and 4 plates. Edition of 497 copies; this is one of 65 on large imperial japon containing two states of the engravings, before the letter with remarks and with the letter (no. 124). Enriched with a very fine original drawing signed by Georges Rochegrosse, in pencil heightened with yellow, 190 x 142 on 281 x 205 mm gray paper, and an autograph letter signed by Pierre Louys to the publisher Ferroud, December 21, 1900, 3 pages and a half in-12, on the rights to his work Byblis: "It has been agreed between us that I give you until August 1, 1901 (nineteen hundred and one) the exclusive authorization to publish an edition of Byblis at a price higher than ten francs. After the above date, I will resume my previous rights. A very well preserved copy.