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Jack / Alphonse Daudet ; illustrations de Pierre Rousseau.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PQ2216 .J3 1928 v. 1-2
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897
Contributor:
Rousseau, Pierre, 1903-1991.
Giuseppe Calabi Collection of French Illustrated Books and Fine Bindings (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Collection française
Language:
French
Genre:
Fine bindings.
Penn Provenance:
Calabi, Eugenio (donor)
Calabi, Giuliana (donor)
Physical Description:
2 volumes : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Place of Publication:
Paris : Henri Cyral, éditeur ..., 1928.
Notes:
Publisher's advertisements at end of v.2.
Limited edition of 1021 numbered copies.
"Ce livre, le dix-huitième de la 'Collection française', tiré a 1021 exemplaires, a été achevé d'imprimer le vingt-cinq aout mil neuf cent vingt-huit a Argenteuil, sur les presses du maitre imprimeur R. Coulouma, H. Barthélemy étant directeur, pour Henri Cyral, éditeur a Paris. Nos. 1 a 30 : 30 exemplaires sur papier de Madagascar, renfermant, chacun deux dessins originaux de Pierre Rousseau. Nos. 31 a 51 : 21 exemplaires sur papier vélin d'Arches. Nos. 52 a 1021 : 970 exemplaires sur papier vélin de Rives."--Colophon (v.2)
Local Notes:
Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Dr. Eugenio Calabi and Giuliana Calabi.
Giuseppe Calabi Collection copy has bookplate: G. Calabi 301.
Giuseppe Calabi Collection copy is no. 811 of 1021.
Giuseppe Calabi Collection copy bound in full blue leather with gilt fleur de lis pattern on front and back covers within a tooled frame; blue morocco doublures with gilt floral design on turn-ins and blue moiré silk free endpapers; top edge with gauffered gilt; printed on "vélin de Rives" with original illustrated front wrappers retained.
Cited in:
Mahé, Raymond. Bibliographie des livres de luxe de 1900 à 1928, I, col. 633
OCLC:
28207053

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