Paris, Boudet, 1900. Folio (35.3 x 28.0 cm). Title-page in grey and red. Contents leaf with hand-coloured pictorial border; seven plates in double suite (tinted, with additional hand-colouring, and in fine and detailed watercolouring), all tissue-guarded, with additional text on colour-printed leaves. Original colour-printed wrappers with large hand-coloured vignette, repeated as b/w frontispiece. In protective transparent sleeve.

Published in 175 copies, this, however, being one of only 25 on Japanese paper, and in double-suite (which is not stated in the colophon): an edition with not a single auction record. The Art Nouveau illustrations are by the French illustrator Henry Detouche (1854-1913), who also wrote the preface. The fine hand-colouring is by the great French illustrator Eugène Alfred Delâtre (1864-1938), who worked with many famous artists, including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Pablo Picasso.. With poems, each addressing one of the seven capital vices, by the French poet and novelist Edmond Haraucourt (l'Orguil - Pride), the French literary critic and novelist Jules-Adolphe Dufour, under his nom de plume, Jules de Marthold (l'Avarice - Greed), the Belgian playwright and librettist Francis de Croisset (La Luxure - Lust), the French poet and dramatist Marc Legrand (l'Envie - Envy), the Belgian symbolic writer and playwright Émile Verhaeren (La Gourmandise - Gluttony), his French colleague, Henri de Régnier (La Colère - Wrath), and the Belgian symbolic poet and literary critic André Fontainas (La Paresse - Sloth). Detouche was influenced by the famous Belgian symbolist artist Félicien Rops (1833-1898). The total number of page-sized illustrations is eighteen, including the front wrapper. Uncut. Covers partly toned, otherwise pristine. An excellent copy of the rarest edition.