[BELOT, Louis Marc Adolphe (1829-90)]. Les Péchés de Minette, Montréal [?but Paris], [c. 1902], black crushed morocco gilt.

[BELOT, Louis Marc Adolphe (1829-90), attributed]. Les Péchés de Minette. Par l' Auteur de La Passion de Gilberte. Montréal [?but Paris]: G. Lebaucher [?but Malakoff], [c. 1902]. Small 8vo (162 x 100mm). Half title, small woodcut device on title, headpieces (a few spots). [?]Early 19th-century [i.e. possibly pre-dating the book] or very convincing contemporary old-style black morocco gilt, the covers with gilt foliate cornerpieces and central spray, the spine elaborately decorated in gilt, gilt edges, [?]original plain blue wrappers bound in (rebacked, preserving original spine, extremities lightly rubbed). [?]Second edition of this rare French pornographic novel. The British Library has two copies of the work, one printed in Paris in 1900 and a copy of the present "Montréal" edition to which it erroneously ascribes the date 1912. The Catalogue de la Maison Richard cites the first edition of 1890, while Perceau suggests that the BL copy of the present 1902 edition is wrongly dated 1912. Pia gives a lengthy description of the book and says that, according to a note in an 1894 catalogue of privately printed books, the first edition was printed some years before 1894 in an edition of just 65 copies, for private distribution; if so, it has entirely disappeared. Dutel Bibliographie des Ouvrages Érotiques 672 (stating that "G. Lebaucher" was a pseudonym of Elias Guachier, a publisher of erotic material based in Malakoff, a suburb to the south west of Paris); Pia Livres de l' Enfer 1106-1107; Perceau Enfer de la Bibliothèque nationale 154: "Le récit est amusant, très pimenté et écrit par un maître."