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Les plaisirs et les jours / Marcel Proust ; illustrations de Madeleine Lemaire ; préface d'Anatole France ; et quatre pièces pour piano de Reynaldo Hahn.

Accession number
PML 138536
Creator
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922
Published
Paris : Calman Lévy, 1896.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
Full-page illustrations, some of them tinted, and head- and tailpiece line-block and halftone illustrations throughout by Meyer.
"Il a été tiré de cette édition trente exemplaires sur papier de Chine. Vingt exemplaires sur papier des Manufactures impériales du Japon ... Tous numérotés."--Half t.p. verso.
Library's copy is unnumbered.
Facsimile of Hahn's holograph of "Portraits de peintres" for piano: p. [122-134].
"Imprimé par Chamerot et Renouard"--Colophon.
Author's presentation copy to Max Daireaux.
Description
x, 272 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill., music ; 30 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Lengthy dedicatory inscription by the author addressed to his friend Max Daireaux on both the recto and verso of the volume's front flyleaf
Provenance
Max Daireaux; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
1/2 black morocco, with original wrappers bound in, in red cloth slipcase.
Classification
Department