Accession number
PML 129368
Published
Paris : Armand Colin & cie, [1896]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2003.
Notes
Added t.p., illustrated. Text within ornamental borders.
Dated 1896 in RLIN and BnF Opale and 1894 in the British Library catalogue and Marla Hand, Carlos Schwabe (Geneva, 1987), p. 83.
The third leaf contains a limitation statement describing two "tirages de luxe" commissioned by the firm of Bernoux et Cumin in Lyons, copies 1-50 with three suites of the engravings, copies 51-150 with two suites of the engravings.
PML has copy no. 3, with two additional suites of the engravings, one printed without the text and an uncolored suite printed on papier de Chine.
Latin and French.
Dated 1896 in RLIN and BnF Opale and 1894 in the British Library catalogue and Marla Hand, Carlos Schwabe (Geneva, 1987), p. 83.
The third leaf contains a limitation statement describing two "tirages de luxe" commissioned by the firm of Bernoux et Cumin in Lyons, copies 1-50 with three suites of the engravings, copies 51-150 with two suites of the engravings.
PML has copy no. 3, with two additional suites of the engravings, one printed without the text and an uncolored suite printed on papier de Chine.
Latin and French.
Description
[122] p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm
Binding
In a vellum binding by Noulhac, the front cover with a watercolor drawing by Carlos Schwabe depicting the Virgin and Child in a field of lilies, signed by the artist and dated 1901. In a quarter vellum chemise, with original wrappers bound in.
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