Title-page: COLETTE | L’INGÉNUE | LIBERTINE | EAUX-FORTES DE DIGNIMONT | PARIS | A LA CITÉ DES LIVRES | — | MDCCCCXXVIII ||
Cover (front wrapper): Similar to t.p. but in red and black: COLETTE | L’INGÉNUE | LIBERTINE | EAUX-FORTES DE DIGNIMONT | PARIS | A LA CITÉ DES LIVRES | — | MDCCCCXXVIII ||
Description: French flapped wrapper in a red marbled double slipcase with lettered paper label to spine, 29.5 x 23 x 5.5 cm, in-4to, leaves 28 x 22.5 cm.
Collation: π4 (π1 in wrapper, π2 blank, π3 h.t. / limitation, π4 t.p. / blank, 1-304, χ2 (χ1 blank, χ2 in wrapper), plus 15 plates extraneous to collation, with tissue-guards, incl. frontispiece.
Pagination: [8] [1] 2-237 [238] [6], ils.
Plates: 15 etchings in sepia by André Dignimont.
Enrichment: Additional full suite of 15 plates in sanguine.
Limitation: Edition is limited to 215 copies, 150 of them printed on thick wove paper (Vélin de Hollande), numbered 41 – 190, with one additional suite of plates. This copy is № 168. Printed on October 14, 1928.
Contributors:
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette [a.k.a. Colette] (French, 1873 – 1954)
André Dignimont (French, 1891 – 1965) – artist.
La cité des livres – publishers.
R. Coulouma (Argenteuil, director H. Barthélemy) – printer, typography.
Atelier de la Roseraie – printer, etchings.
