Rodin (Auguste).- Mirbeau (Octave) Le Jardin des Supplices, one of 30 copies on chine with an additional suite of plain plates, from an edition limited to 200, 20 lithograph plates by Auguste Rodin signed by the artist on the stone, all but two colour, each bound with additional plain plate and captioned tissue guard, light foxing to a couple of plates, with 2 pencil preparatory drawings by the binder mounted on sheet and bound in at end (one marked with tool numbers), bound in dark purple goatskin, by Charles Lanoë, spine titled in gilt with five raised bands, red goatskin doublures with illustration from title-page tooled in blind to centre, signed at foot of front turn-in, dark red silk moiré linings, marbled flyleaves, original printed wrappers bound in, g.e., preserved in half dark purple goatskin chemise (spine a little rubbed and faded) and board slip-case (very slightly rubbed at edges), [Artist & the Book 261; Artist & the Book in France p.341; Manet to Hockney 19], 4to (binding c.330 x 250mm.), Paris, Ambroise Vollard, 1902.

⁂ Fine copy of Mirbeau's erotic novel, the only work to contain original plates by Rodin.