Accession number
PML 187633
Creator
Mérimée, Prosper, 1803-1870.
Published
[Paris] : Harrison of Paris ; New York : Minton, Balch and Company, [1931]
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
"This, the sixth publication of Harrison of Paris, has been designed by Monroe Wheeler ... in September 1931. Maurice Barraud's illustrations have been stencil-coloured by Eugène Charpentier. The edition consists of fifty copies (of which twenty-eight are for America), on Imperial Japan vellum, I-L, No. I containing the original proofs coloured and signed by the artist; five hundred and ninety-five copies (of which four hundred and twenty-five are for America), on Rives pure-rag vellum, 1-595; and twenty copies not for sale and so marked"--Colophon.
Library's copy is no. XXXIV.
Library's copy is no. XXXIV.
Description
175 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Translators' signatures in graphite on title page: by Monroe Wheeler; Barbara Harrison; and Glenway Wescott.
Provenance
Bookplate of Albert Sperisen; Carter Burden.
Binding
Illustrated boards backed in red vellum in brown board slipcase as issued.
Classification
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