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Faune parisienne / E. Ramiro & Louis Legrand.

Accession number
TMP 2023-96.34
Creator
Ramiro, Erastène, 1853-1928, author.
Published
Paris : Gustave Pellet, Éditeur, 1901.
Credit line
Promised gift of Davida Deutsch in memory of Alvin Deutsch.
Notes
"Achevé d'imprimer le 31 octobre 1901 sur les presses de Philippe Renouard pour Gustave Pellet, Éditeur a Paris"--colophon.
Illustrations: Numerous wood-engraved and process block(?) head- and tailpieces, vignettes, and initials after Legrand by G. Lemoine; cover design in etching and aquatint, the final state printed in color; 13 full-page plates executed in etching, soft ground etching, and aquatint by Legrand, not included in the volume's pagination, and 6 printed with text; 4 of the full-page plates were printed in black only, and are present here in both final and early etched states; the 6 prints which appear with text are present in 3 states, including the final state with text, as well as impressions in black and in color, without text.
Edition of 140 copies, each copy issued .
Library has copy no. 64 of 130 copies on vélin.
"Each copy was issued with a set of the 20 etchings in final state, plus a set of all the etchings in the final state in black, before the addition of the color sections." Cf. Arwas.
Description
2 unnumbered leaves, 101 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, partly color (etching and aquatint) ; 27 cm
Provenance
Exlibris Albert Natural; from the collection of Davida Deutsch.
Binding
Painted vellum boards, signed by Legrand, original wrappers bound in; with chemise and slipcase.
Classification
Department