Chimot (Édouard).- Baudu (René) Les Après-Midi de Montmartre, out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 170, this copy on large paper signed and inscribed by the artist "Exemplaire d'auteur Chimot" and with additional states of the plates bound in at end, also inscribed by the artist to Daniel Sickles, 10 etched plates and 4 illustrations by Édouard Chimot, all with captioned tissue guard, with additional states of 8 of the etchings bound at end (most in two states, one in three and two in one), mostly on japon, all initialled or signed by Chimot, two with colours, bound in green goatskin, by G[ermaine] Schroeder, upper cover with abstract design of overlapping circular black goatskin onlays at top and bottom outlined in gilt and connected by wavy gilt lines on left hand side, spine titled in gilt at foot on extended black onlay, black silk moiré doublures and linings, t.e.g., others uncut, spine and edges rubbed and faded, particularly upper joint, folio (binding c.335 x 225mm.), Paris, [1919].

⁂ The artist's copy of this moving account of the prostitutes of Montmartre describing and illustrating their lives with references to drink and drug abuse.

Chimot's inscription reads, "Je suis heureux de dedicacer a Monsieur Daniel Sickles ce livre, commencé en 1913, et terminé après la guerre avec mes souvenirs sympathique Chimot". Sickles was a notable bibliophile and collector.

Germaine Schroeder (1889-1983), French bookbinder, one of several women binders of the time inspired by the modernist abstract style of Pierre Legrain.