MONNIER (Antoine). EVE AND HER INCARNATIONS. Sonnets and strong waters. With preface by Tony Révillon and prologue by Prosper Blanchemain. Paris, Willem, 1878. In-8, lavaliere morocco, dishes entirely decorated with a geometrical decoration consisting of brown morocco bands, ribbed back also decorated with a morocco decoration of the same hue, wide gilt lace inside, purple moire endpapers, double guard, gilt edges on witnesses, bordered case (P. Ribbon 1898). ONE OF THE 4 EXAMPLES PRINTED ON BREBIS SKIN, HERE THE N°1 IN A REMARKABLE PETRUS RIBBON BINDING, Original edition of this curious gallery of sonnets illustrated with 12 full-page etchings, graceful and strange incarnations of woman. "Antoine Monnier belongs to the family of spirits of Edgard Poe and Baudelaire. Like them he goes from skeleton to animated form and from angel to demon... The horror of the banal pushed to the search for the bizarre, and the love of the real arriving at brutality! "(Tony Révillon). (Vicar, V, 1003). VERY NICE EXAMPLE with the illustrations in 3 states, all engraved on skin.