Accession number
PML 197017
Creator
Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907.
Published
[Paris] : Editio[n] du Mercure de Fra[n]ce, xv, rue de l'Échaudé, MDCCCXCIV [1894]
Credit line
Gift of Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman, 2017.
Notes
Illustrations by the author: 7 prints : woodcut, monochrome ; full-page. Four are printed in dark bluish green, 2 in dark burgundy and 1 in black. Two additional full-page prints are reproductions of early woodcuts.
Visual typographic design on title page, with large letters "M" and "AR" in title and author and "D," "R," "E, " "X" and "V" in imprint representing letters in more than one word; "V" is doubly used as letter and number.
"Il a été tiré CXCVII exemplaires sur carré vergé d'Arches et XIX sur petit raisin Ingres vert, rouge et jaune."
Library's copy printed on carré vergeé d'Arches.
Printed by Charles Renaudie (his device, designed by Léon Bloy, reproduced in colophon).
Visual typographic design on title page, with large letters "M" and "AR" in title and author and "D," "R," "E, " "X" and "V" in imprint representing letters in more than one word; "V" is doubly used as letter and number.
"Il a été tiré CXCVII exemplaires sur carré vergé d'Arches et XIX sur petit raisin Ingres vert, rouge et jaune."
Library's copy printed on carré vergeé d'Arches.
Printed by Charles Renaudie (his device, designed by Léon Bloy, reproduced in colophon).
Description
[6], ix, [5]-210, [3] pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 14 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed by the author on front fly-leaf in ink: "Exemplaire d'Octave Mirbeau."
Provenance
Octave Mirbeau; Bibliothèque de Octave Mirbeau, 26 March 1919, no. 426 ; Collection of Eric and Marie-Hélène Buffetaud (their sale, Sotheby's, Paris, 15 Oct. 2010, lot 50); The Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
Binding
3/4 vellum with marbled paper sides, top edge gilt, spine lettered and stamped in gold, by Paul Vié; with original black wrappers decorated with gold escutcheon design bound in, and tri-color bookmark, as issued.
Classification
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