Criminelles
Subtitle: 24 eaux-fortes
By: de Mariette Lydis
Contributors: MacOrlan, Pierre, 1882-1970
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1927
Place of publication: Paris?]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Female offenders in art; Criminals in art
Description: 24 etched plates depicting fictitious female criminals, predominantly murderers. Each illustration accompanied by a letterpress caption pasted below, imitating a newspaper report on the prisoner. The names, likenesses, and crimes described were all inventions of Mariette Lydis.
Notes: Cover title.

Introduction signed by Pierre MacOrlan.

" ... soixante quinze exemplaires ... tous ... sont signés par l'artiste"--Page [4].

Leaves laid into brown linen board portfolio with a prison window with bars cut into the front board and chains in place of clasps.

Mariette married Jean Lydis in 1922; in 1928 she married Comte Giuseppi Govone in Paris.