L'ingenu : histoire véritable tirée du manuscrit du Père Quesnel / par Voltaire ; vignettes de S. Sauvage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Voltaire, 1694-1778.

Contributor:

Kieffer, René, 1875-1963, binder.

Sauvage, Sylvain.

Giuseppe Calabi Collection of French Illustrated Books and Fine Bindings (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Genre:

Fine bindings.

Signed bindings (Binding) -- France -- Paris -- 20th century.

Binders' tickets (Binding) -- France -- Paris -- 20th century.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Calabi, Eugenio (donor)

Calabi, Giuliana (donor)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 186 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez René Kieffer, relieur et éditeur ..., MCMXXII [1922]

Notes:

Half- title.

Limited edition of 540 copies.

"De ce volume il a été tiré 40 exemplaires sur papier du Japon avec suite des illustrations sur papier de Chine et 500 sur papier vélin blanc."--Verso of half title leaf.

"Achevé d'imprimer le 25 septembre 1922 par Ducros, Lefèvre et Colas 7, rue Croulebarbe à Paris"--Colophon on p. [1] at end.

Color illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Dr. Eugenio Calabi and Giuliana Calabi.

Giuseppe Calabi Collection copy is no. 85 of 540.

Giuseppe Calabi Collection copy has bookplate: G. Calabi 144.

Giuseppe Calabi Collection copy bound in full brown morocco with gilt central design on covers and marbled endpapers; binder's ticket of "René Kieffer, reliures d'art ... Paris" mounted on verso of half title leaf above bookplate; printed on "papier vélin blanc" with original wrappers (front illustrated) and spine strip retained.

Cited in:

Mahé, Raymond. Bibliographie des livres de luxe de 1900 à 1928, III, col. 703

OCLC:

671637923