Cours de danse fin de siècle / illustrations de Louis Legrand.

Erastène Ramiro (1853-1923) was a pseudonym of French lawyer, writer, and bibliographer Eugène Rodrigues.
"Imprimé par Chamerot et Renouard 19, Rue des Saints-Pères, 19 Paris"--Colophon.
Issued in an edition of 350 numbered copies, including 49 copies on japon paper, numbered 2-50.
Library's copy is hors commerce, with no justification de tirage. Large paper copy on japon imperial paper.
Illustrated with 23 color-printed process block head- and tailpieces, initials, and vignettes after Legrand, and 11 plates rendered in etching and aquatint by the artist, inluding the frontispiece plate.
With five suites of Legrands etchings in multiple proof states bound into the text, many signed by the artist and including early states with remarques, a suite of impressions in red ink, and a suite printed in multiple colors à la poupée and touched with watercolor by the artist. With an original full-page watercolor frontispiece by Legrand, plus five marginal watercolor drawings on pages 1, 27, 51, 53, and the "Table des Eaux-Fortes".
With a set of impressions of the head- and tailpieces, initials, and vignettes after Legrand printed without the text and bound in at the end of the volume.
Copy also includes three impressions of Legrand's etching "Le Salut Militaire" (Arwas 72) which was produced independent of the book and reproduces the figure from the tailpiece vignette on page 59; the three impressions include a remarque state of the print, an impression in red ink, and an impression in color à la poupée.
Color process prints of Legrand's drawings for Cours de danse fin de siècle, along with Erastène Ramiro's text, appeared in the May 10, 1891 supplement of the periodical "Gil Blas illustre", where the piece appeared under the title "Les excentricités de la danse."