I found only a leading Dutch antiquarian bookseller who has a later edition of the same work, more in demand for its rarity, in his sale list for € 17,000. The British Library has only a mutilated edition, with three of the twenty-four illustrations in my copy. Recently I put my copy up for sale by auction at Christie’s, and received rather less.
Here is an essay DE SADE AND HIS PRESENT DAY FOLLOWERS— by the narrator Patrice Léon of The Book That Kills.