Album, probably created in France in 1880, of twenty erotic photographs of a young woman inspecting herself for fleas, whose actions are intended primarily to titillate.

1 albums (20 photographic prints) : albumen, 15 x 21 cm (album)

Photographs (12 x 17 cm) are affixed to rectos and versos of leaves of heavy beige stock, bordered in red.

Bound in red cloth covers, with title "La puce" stamped in gold on upper cover; gold moiré silk endpapers; all edges gilt. Gift of Frederic Thomas Blanchard.

Spec. Coll. copy: in modern beige cloth-covered clamshell box, with spine title "La puce."

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