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Carmen / Prosper Mérimée ; bois en couleurs d'Hermann-Paul.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PQ2362 .C3 1927
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mérimée, Prosper, 1803-1870.
Contributor:
Hermann-Paul, 1864-
Giuseppe Calabi Collection of French Illustrated Books and Fine Bindings (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
French
Genre:
Fine bindings.
Signed bindings (Binding) -- 20th century.
Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Calabi, Eugenio (donor)
Calabi, Giuliana (donor)
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages, 105 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 5 unnumbered color leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Place of Publication:
Paris : A la Cité des livres, MDCCCCXXVII [1927]
Notes:
Half-title.
Limited edition of 290 numbered copies.
"Il a été tiré de ce livre 290 exemplaires: 1 exemplaire no. 1, sur Japon impérial, avec 6 aquarelles originales et double suite; 7 exemplaires sur Japon impérial, avec une aqurelle originale et double suite, numérotés de 2 a 8; 15 exemplaires sur Japon impérial, avec double suite, numérotés de 24 a 45; 220 exemplaires sur vélin de Hollande, numérotés de 46 a 265; et 25 exemplaires numérotés de I a XXV, hors-commerce, sur papiers divers."--Verso of half title leaf.
"Carmen ... achevé d'imprimer sur les presses du maitre imprimeur Robert Coulouma a Argenteuil, H. Barthélemy étant directeur, le trente mars mil neuf cent vingt-sept"--Colophon.
Local Notes:
Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Dr. Eugenio Calabi and Giuliana Calabi.
Giuseppe Calabi Collection copy is no. 96 of 290.
Giuseppe Calabi Collection copy has bookplate: G. Calabi 66.
Giuseppe Calabi Collection copy bound in full burnt sienna (orange brown) morocco; title on upper board inlaid in gilt set within triangle of black morocco; gilt and brown inlaid lines extend from title in triangular shape; printed on "vélin de Hollande" with original printed wrappers and spine strip retained; unidentified binder's monogram stamp (BLOC?) in gilt on bottom turn in of lower board; housed in slipcase.
Cited in:
Mahé, Raymond. Bibliographie des livres de luxe de 1900 à 1928, II, col. 917
OCLC:
7952290

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