Accession number
PML 140727
Creator
Cain, Georges, 1856-1919.
Published
Paris : Imprimé aux dépens de deux amateurs [i.e. Charles Miguet and Jean Borderet], 1927.
Notes
Etched half t.p., frontispiece plate, and 42 etched vignettes printed within the text, by Charles Jouas.
"Imprimé pour le texte par Frazier-Soye"--Colophon.
The etched illustrations printed by A. Porcabeuf.
Ed. of 130 numbered copies; including 30 copies numbered 1 through 30 with two additional suites of etchings 1st and 2nd state; 40 copies numbered 31 through 70 with an additional suite of etchings in the 2nd state; 60 copies numbered 71 through 130 with the etchings appearing as vignettes in the text only. The etchings comprising the additional suites issued in copies 1 through 70 of the edition are printed without letterpress and the etched images themselves are more extensive, having been cut down for inclusion as vignettes in the printed text.
Library has copy no. 58, with an extra suite of the etchings in the 2nd state printed without letterpress, bound in.
Library's copy missing colophon leaf.
The two original drawings bound into the Morgan Library copy described in: The illustrator and the book in England from 1790 to 1914 / Gordon N. Ray. New York ; London : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1976, p. 456 ("Le Quai des Orfèvres en 1912" reproduced following p. 324).
"Imprimé pour le texte par Frazier-Soye"--Colophon.
The etched illustrations printed by A. Porcabeuf.
Ed. of 130 numbered copies; including 30 copies numbered 1 through 30 with two additional suites of etchings 1st and 2nd state; 40 copies numbered 31 through 70 with an additional suite of etchings in the 2nd state; 60 copies numbered 71 through 130 with the etchings appearing as vignettes in the text only. The etchings comprising the additional suites issued in copies 1 through 70 of the edition are printed without letterpress and the etched images themselves are more extensive, having been cut down for inclusion as vignettes in the printed text.
Library has copy no. 58, with an extra suite of the etchings in the 2nd state printed without letterpress, bound in.
Library's copy missing colophon leaf.
The two original drawings bound into the Morgan Library copy described in: The illustrator and the book in England from 1790 to 1914 / Gordon N. Ray. New York ; London : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1976, p. 456 ("Le Quai des Orfèvres en 1912" reproduced following p. 324).
Description
108 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. (etching) ; 30 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Presentation inscription by the artist on flyleaf preceding half t.p.: Très-heureux de dédicacer cet exemplaire de Monsieur Enrique Garcia Mérou, et très-flatté de son désir de joindre des originaux à mon illustration gravée.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Full teal morocco tooled in gilt by Creuzevault, with the original wrappers bound in, in slipcase.
Classification
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