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

Erastène Ramiro 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 imperial paper, numbered 2-50.
Large paper copy; copy no. 44 of 49 copies printed on japon imperial paper.
Illustrated with color-printed process block head- and tailpieces, initials, and vignettes after Legrand, and a frontispiece and 10 etched and aquatinted plates by the artist.
With four suites of Legrands etchings in multiple states bound into the text, including remarque proofs, impressions in red ink, and hand colored impressions. With an original signed watercolor executed by Legrand on the half-title page.
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 signed remarque state of the print, a signed impression in red ink, and an impression colored by hand.
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."