Colette / Jacques Lelong - Les Vrilles de la Vigne - 1930

A series of 16 erotic novellas, loose-leaf in original slipcase, beautifully decorated with over 32 colour engravings protected by blotting paper, engraved by Maccar, after original watercolours by Lelong.
Colette (1873-1930) describes the life of the demi-monde in Paris during the Roaring Twenties in her well-known erotic way, in which jealousy, love, adultery and complex networks of gay and heterosexual relationships are recurring themes.
First published in 1908 as instalments of a serial in La Vie Parisienne.
Colette is best known for her semi-autobiographical novels such as Claudine, Chéri and Gigi, which were filmed or adapted into a play.
Condition: engravings are perfect, slipcase is affected by the ravages of time, some slightly water-stained pages,