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Les soliloques du pauvre / Jehan Rictus.

Accession number
PML 141978
Creator
Rictus, Jehan, 1867-1933.
Published
[Paris] : Chez l'auteur, 1897.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Poems, in the patois of the poor of Paris.
"Paris. -- Imp. de l'art, E. Moreau et cie, 41, rue de la Victoire."--Colophon.
Pages [1-4] blank.
Library's copy appears to be missing blank pages [1-4].
Illustrated with two b&w lithographs after T.A. Steinlen, including frontispiece portrait of Rictus and additional portrait of Rictus on front wrapper.
"Ouvrage exclusivement résérvé aux souscripteurs ... Cette édition ... ne sera jamais réimprimée"--p. [6].
Printed in an edition of 581 copies.
Library has copy no. 97.
Library has copy no. 114 of Sunyer's suite of lithographs.
Description
169, [7] p. : ill., port. ; 23 cm.
Provenance
Author's presentation copy inscribed on half t.p. to Gaston Duchêne, April 1897; bookplate of Brayat; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
1/2 red morocco by Ch. Meunier, with mosaic design on spine; original illustrated gray wrappers bound in.
Classification
Department