Accession number
PML 143241
Creator
Laclos, Choderlos de, 1741-1803.
Published
London : The Nonesuch Press, 1940.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
The 10 plates hand colored as issued.
"This English edition ... has been composed in monotype Fournier at the Fanfare Press, London, to the design of Francis Meynell; it is printed by the Imprimerie Protat frères in Mâcon, France, on paper especially made at the Rives Mills in France. The illustrations by Chas Laborde have been reproduced by collotype in Paris by G. Duval and coloured by M. Beaufumé. The figurines were drawn by Berthold Wolpe."--Colophon.
"This English edition ... has been composed in monotype Fournier at the Fanfare Press, London, to the design of Francis Meynell; it is printed by the Imprimerie Protat frères in Mâcon, France, on paper especially made at the Rives Mills in France. The illustrations by Chas Laborde have been reproduced by collotype in Paris by G. Duval and coloured by M. Beaufumé. The figurines were drawn by Berthold Wolpe."--Colophon.
Description
xviii, 387 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Original decorated blue and white cloth in cardboard slipcase.
Classification
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