Accession number
TMP 2023-96.37
Creator
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849, author.
Published
Paris : Imprimé pour les Amis des livres par Chamerot et Renouard, 1897.
Credit line
Promised gift of Davida Deutsch in memory of Alvin Deutsch.
Notes
Edition of 115 copies, each copy containing the 15 etchings by Legrand in two states, copies 1 to 50 printed for individual full members of the Société des amis des livres, and copies 51 to 75 for the corresponding or honorary members of the society.
Library has copy no. 99 of 115.
Illustrated with 2 suites of Legrand's 15 full-page illustrations, executed in etching and aquatint, printed on Japan vellum by Porcabeuf Frères; each print present in the 1st and 2nd states as described by Arwas; with 30 process block and haltone textual illustrations by Ducourtioux and Huillard after drawings by Legrand, including 15 decorated initials and 15 tail-piece vignettes.
Library has copy no. 99 of 115.
Illustrated with 2 suites of Legrand's 15 full-page illustrations, executed in etching and aquatint, printed on Japan vellum by Porcabeuf Frères; each print present in the 1st and 2nd states as described by Arwas; with 30 process block and haltone textual illustrations by Ducourtioux and Huillard after drawings by Legrand, including 15 decorated initials and 15 tail-piece vignettes.
Description
401, 7 pages; 30 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27.8 x 20 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Yves Refoulé and Suzanne Courtois; M. Paul Lacombe; from the collection of Davida Deutsch.
Binding
Black morocco by Chambolle-Duru.
Classification
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