Accession number
PML 128565
Creator
Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.
Published
[Besançon] : Les Bibliophiles Comtois, 1930.
Credit line
Gift; Jan van der Marck.
Notes
"... tirée à cent quarante exemplaires ... Nos 1à 105. Exemplaires distribués aux membres de la Société ..."--Limitation statement, prelim. leaf.
In case (29 cm).
Inserted opposite limitation statement is a full-page crayon drawing of the etching accompanying the Achevé d'Imprimer page and following that an original pen drawing for the etching on the menu of the dinner celebrating the book's publication.
Library has copy no. 30 "imprimé pour M. Léonce Deliniére".
Portrait etched in bistre [of Léonce Deliniére?] with 1933 pencil inscription by Jouas has been inserted opposite half t.p.
With the maquette for the book: a set of drawings and progressive proofs of the illustrations bound at end.
In case (29 cm).
Inserted opposite limitation statement is a full-page crayon drawing of the etching accompanying the Achevé d'Imprimer page and following that an original pen drawing for the etching on the menu of the dinner celebrating the book's publication.
Library has copy no. 30 "imprimé pour M. Léonce Deliniére".
Portrait etched in bistre [of Léonce Deliniére?] with 1933 pencil inscription by Jouas has been inserted opposite half t.p.
With the maquette for the book: a set of drawings and progressive proofs of the illustrations bound at end.
Description
[7], vii, 166, [2] p. : ill. ; 28 cm
Provenance
Léonce Deliniére; from the library of Jan van der Marck.
Binding
navy blue morocco; covers and spine decorated with quadruple gilt fillets interlaced in a Grolieresque design; doublures of pale blue morocco inset with copperplates of two of the book's etchings; brown silk free endpapers; marbled flyleaves; wrappers preserved; stamp-signed on upper turn-in: "Rel. E. Maylander. Dor."; slipcase.
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