Paris: L'Enseigne de la Feuille de Rose, N.d. [c.1950]

Small 8vo, unpaginated. Original cream stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red and black to front panel. A little age-toned, but otherwise a very well preserved copy.

Illustrated reprint, no. 377 of 531 copies, this one of 475 copies on vélin d'Arches.

This collection of bawdy guardroom ballads was first published around 1910, and was regularly (and clandestinely) republished thereafter. This undated edition from about 1950 carries a suite of pornographic drawings, each accompanied by the music for one of the songs.