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Hardcover volume, 26.6 x 21.3 cm, ¾ blue crushed morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, original wrappers preserved, raised bands; wove paper, watermarked Van Gelder Zonen, unpaginated, 2 ffl, 1 front cover, 2 blanks, 1 h.t., 1 t.p., 46 leaves of text and plates (18 full-page and 14 half-page lithographs by Marcel Vertès), 1 colophon, 1 blank, 1 back cover, 2 ffl; 52 leaves within the original covers, as per Dutel. Title-page: POÉSIES | ÉROTIQUES | D' | UN | AUTE | UR CÉ | LÈBRE, | ILLUSTRÉ | ES DE TR | ENTE-DEUX | LITHOGRAPHIES | ORIGINALES | DESSINÉES | PAR UN | ARTISTE | INCON | NU | ★ | BARCELONE | ATARAZANAS (BARRIO CHINO) | L'AN I DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE | CATALANE || Limitation: A print run of 165 numbered copies, of which this is copy № 148, and 5 additional presentation copies. The text was printed by Massol, and plates were produced by Mme Duchatel. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 2228 ; Nordmann II (Christie’s) № 321; Éros invaincu № 92, p. 222; Vokaer № 36, p. 16. Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author. Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist. René Bonnel (French, 1884 – 1975) – publisher. -
![Charles Virmaitre. Paris qui s'efface. — Paris: Albert Savine, 1887. — 2me édition. — pp.: [2 blanks] [2 hf-t, advert.] [t.p., blank] [2 dedicat., blank] [1, 2 - chap.1 cont., blank] [2-3] 4-314 [2 blanks].](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-2453.2020-a-1-scaled-500x500.jpeg)
Title page: CHARLES VIRMAITRE | PARIS | qui s'efface | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | NOUVELLE LIBRAIRIE PARISIENNE | ALBERT SAVINE, ÉDITEUR | 18, RUE DROUOT, 18 | 1887 | Tous droits réservés. || Collation: Front pictorial wrapper, ffl, π3 1-1712 181, bfl, back wrapper w/publ. advert. Pagination: [6] [1-3] 4-314. -
Title page: ГИЛЬГАМЕШЪ | ВАВИЛОНСКIЙ ЭПОСЪ | ПЕРЕВОДЪ | Н. ГУМИЛЕВА | ВВЕДЕНИЕ В. ШИЛЕЙКО | Изданiе З. И. Гржебина | С.-ПЕТЕРБУРГЪ — 1919. Pagination: [1-4] 5-78 [2]; head and tail pieces (William Hayes Ward, The seal cylinders of Western Asia, Washington, 1910). Binding: Publisher’s wrappers, lettering, vignette. Contributors: Гумилёв, Николай Степанович (Russian, 1886 – 1921) – translator from the French. Шилейко, Владимир Казимирович (Russian, 1891 – 1930) – editor. -
Title: Chansons | de Salles de Garde | {vignette} | Internat { À l’Enseigne des Trois Orfèvres } Quartier Latin || Collation: 21 leaves folded in half (84 pages), unpaginated, unbound, plus 40 plates (two-tone lithography) for 40 songs, in a flapped paper folder, in a green cardstock folder (slipcase without top and bottom?) with gilt diaper ornament. Text, music score, and drawings printed in brick red. Size: 28 x 22.5 cm. Edition: limited to 700 copies of which 100 (№ 1-100) on Vélin Arches, 650 (№ 101-650) on Vélin Spécial, and 50 without numbering marked “Exemplaire d’interne” on Vélin Supérieur. This copy is № 27. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel 1920 – 1970: 1192. -
Description: Softcover, original blue-grey wrappers, maroon fleuron to front wrapper « P.L. {copulating couple} 1897. », 28.5 x 23 cm, in a grey double slipcase. Pp.: [1-10] 11-192 [2] [6 blanks], total 200 pages, 50 folio leaves folded in half collated in 4to, unbound, plus 16 coloured lithographs by Jean Berque; all printed on wove paper watermarked “LANA”. This is № 207 of an undisclosed number of copies. Edition enriched with a suite of 12 hand-coloured etchings after Éduard Chimot for publication in the late 1940s (Dutel 2524) on BFK Rives paper. Title-page (maroon and black): P. L. | TROIS | FILLES | DE LEUR | MÈRE | {fleuron} | A L'ENSEIGNE DU CHAT POUR CHAT | M DCCC XCVII || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel 2523, Pia 1340. Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author. Jean Berque (French, 1896 – 1954) – artist. Édouard Chimot (French, 1880 – 1959) – artist. -
Paperback, 22.3 x 15.5 cm, publisher’s tan wrappers, brown lettering to front and spine, imprint and price to back, pp.: [1-3] 4-136 [2] blank/advert.; collated 8vo: [1]-88, 94 χ1, total 69 leaves plus 6 photomechanical plates, incl. frontispiece, four of them portraits. Title-page: И. Мечниковъ | ОСНОВАТЕЛИ | СОВРЕМЕННОЙ МЕДИЦИНЫ. | Пастеръ. — Листеръ. — Кохъ. | — | Изданiе | “НАУЧНАГО СЛОВА”. | Москва — 1915. Contributors and Characters: Илья Ильич Мечников [Élie Metchnikoff] (Russian, 1845 – 1916) – author. "Научное слово" – publisher. Типо-литография Товарищества И. Н. Кушнерев и Ко. — printer. Louis Pasteur (French, 1822 – 1895) – character. Joseph Lister (British, 1827 – 1912) – character. Robert Koch (German, 1843 – 1910) – character. -
![П. Е. Корнилов [автограф]. Материалы к иконографии Казани. // Оттиск из издания "Материалы по охране, ремонту и реставрации памятников ТССР, вып.IV". — Казань: 1918. — 31 стр.+ [6] л. илл.; — Тираж 50 экз.](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-1021.2016-a-scaled-500x500.jpeg)
22 x 15.5 cm, wrappers, label pasted down to the front cover, lettering in a double frame: П. Е. КОРНИЛОВ. | МАТЕРИАЛЫ К ИКОНОГРАФИИ | КАЗАНИ | Казань | 1930 | Оттиск из издания “Материалы по охране, ремонту и реставрации памятников ТССР”, вып. IVй, 50 экз. Pagination: 1-17, frontispiece and 5 leaves of photomechanical illustrations (plates 1-7), extraneous to collation; pages also numbered for the compiled publication: pp. [15] 16-31 [32], published by «Отдел по делам музея и охраны памятников искусства, старины и природы при Академическом центре Татнаркомпроса». A pre-print of a paper for a compilation, published as a separate limited edition of 50 copies. Autograph: Дорогому Николаю Васильевичу | Ильину с дружеской приязнью | от автора | 18. VIII. 30. | Казань. Корнилов, Петр Евгеньевич (Russian, 1896 – 1981) Ильин, Николай Васильевич (Russian, 1894 – 1954) — График. Окончил МУЖВЗ (1910-1916). В 1922-1930 годах работал по оформлению книг в Нижнем Новгороде. С 1930 года жил и работал в Москве. Художник в издательстве Детгиз, затем главный художник Гослитиздата. Оформлял книги произведений А.С. Пушкина в технике силуэта. -
Title (in red and black): CANDIDE | OU L'OPTIMISME | PAR | VOLTAIRE | ILLUSTRATIONS | DE | BRUNELLESCHI | {vignette} | GIBERT JEUNE | LIBRAIRIE D'AMATEURS | 61, BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL, 61 | PARIS || Pagination : [6] 1-163 [164][2], with 23 black tailpieces, plus 16 colour plates extraneous to collation, incl. frontispiece, printed by A. Dantan and stencil-coloured (au pochoir) by E. Charpentier after gouache and watercolour drawings by Umberto Brunelleschi; total 102 leaves. Limited edition of 2500 copies, this is № 39. Printed at Imprimerie Coulouma, Argenteuil (H. Barthélemy, director) on July 15, 1933. Binding: 26.5 x 20.5 cm, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, vignettes and lettering to front wrapper and spine, publisher’s device to back wrapper. Description of the stensil (au pochoir) technique. -
Description: One volume in cream French flapped wrappers, collated 8vo, 22.5 x 14.8 cm, lettered to front (device in red), printed on wove paper, margins untrimmed, some pages uncut, illustrated with tail- and headpieces and 17 sets of plates (4 of each plate) with tissue guards, after Martin van Maele. Front wrapper (red and black): L'HISTOIRE | COMIQUE DE | FRANCION | COMPOSÉE PAR CHARLES SOREL | Réimprimée intégralement pour la | première fois d'après l'édition | originale de 1623 | ET DÉCORÉE | de 17 eaux-fortes et de 16 gravures | par MARTIN VAN MAELE | {device} | SE VEND | A Paris, chez Jean Fort | Libraire, rue de Chabrol, no 12 | M. CM. XXV. || Title-page (red and black): L'HISTOIRE | COMIQUE DE | FRANCION | En laquelle sont découvertes les plus subtiles | finesses et trompeuses inventions tant des hommes | que des femmes de toutes sortes de conditions et | d’âges. Non moins profitable pour s’en | garder, que plaisante à la lecture. | Nouvelle édition conforme à | l’édition princeps de 1623, et | ornée de 17 eaux-fortes et | de 16 compositions par | MARTIN VAN MAELE | {device} | A PARIS | Chez Jean Fort, libraire, | Rue de Chabrol, no 12 | M. CM. XXV. || Collation: π3 (blank, h.t., t.p.), 1-268 χ3 (colophon, 2 blanks), total 214 leaves plus 17 sets of plates (4 of each). Pagination: [6] i-v [vi], 1-411 [412] [4], total 428 pages, ils. Illustrations: 16 tail- and headpieces, and one full-page vignette etched after drawings by Martin van Maële; 17 gravures coloured à la poupée after van Maële’s watercolours, each accompanied with three b/w plates in a different state of the same, incl. frontispiece; unpaginated. Limitation: The run of 1,203 copies printed on October 2, 1925, by Maurice Darantiere in Dijon; 1 copy (№ 1) on Japon Impérial is unique with the original drawings and three additional suites of plates; 10 copies (2-11) on Japon Impérial with three additional suites of plates; 31 copies (12-42) on Hollande with two additional suites of plates; 61 copies (43-103) on Madagascar with one additional suite of plates; 1,100 copies (104-1203) on Enoshima. This copy is № 10 on Japon Impérial with three additional suites of plates. Catalogue raisonné: S. A. Perry (2015) № 28, p. 31. Contributors: Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny (French, c. 1602 – 1674) – author Maurice François Alfred Martin van Maële [Martin van Maële] (French, 1863 – 1926) – artist. Maurice Darantiere (French, 1882 – 1962) – printer. Jean-Marie Fort (French, 20th century) – publisher. -
One volume in-4o, 26.5 x 21 x 4 cm, bound by Durvand (signed) in tan quarter morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering, top margin gilt, marbled endpapers, publisher’s wrappers preserved; enriched with 39 original prints after Félicien Rops. Collation: 2 blanks, π5 (original front wrapper ‘Canicule’/blank, 2 blanks, h.t./justification, t.p/blank), 1-294 301 (paginated 1-233 [234]) χ1 (advert.) plus frontispiece (photographic seated portrait of Félicien Rops, collotype, artist unknown) and 39 leaves of bound-in original prints by various printers on different papers, with tissue guards; back wrapper and original spine, 2 blanks; loosely inset a marriage invitation for Dr Robert Fasquelle and Mlle Suzanne Luneau with a partial list of prints, incl. page numbers. Title-page (red and black): Études sur quelques Artistes originaux | — | FÉLICIEN ROPS | par | CAMILLE LEMONNIER | {fleuron} | PARIS | H. FLOURY, ÉDITEUR | 1, Boulevard des Capucines, 1 | – | 1908 || Limitation: 125 copies with two original plates «Canicule» and «Seule» numbered 1-125, of which 100 copies on Japon à la forme, 25 copies on papier de Chine; plus 50 copies on papier vélin with one coloured plate «Canicule», numbered 126-175, printed by Edmond Deman in Brussels. Our copy is on dense wove paper (vélin), without a number. Photographs here represent the original prints only. Camille Lemonnier (Belgian, 1844 – 1913) – author. Félicien Rops (Belgian, 1833 – 1898) – artist. Henri Floury (French, 1862 –1961) – publisher. Edmond Deman (Belgian, 1857–1918) – printer. Lucien Durvand (French, 1852 – 1924) – bookbinder. -
Softcover volume, 33 x 26 cm, collated in folio, not bound, in publisher’s French flapped pictorial wrappers, lettering to spine; printed on thick wove Arches paper watermarked “MBM”, upper edge trimmed, owner’s blind stamp to h.t. “Ex Libris Comte Tony de Vibraye”, glassine dust jacket, in a slipcase. Collation: π2 1-262, total 54 leaves, plus 4 leaves in wrappers, plus 10 plates, incl. frontispiece; coloured aquatints after Sylvain Sauvage; coloured etched vignette to front wrapper, gilt woodcut to back wrapper, woodcut title-page and woodcut headpiece after the same. Pp.: [4] [1] 2-102 [2]. Front wrapper (gilt and black): LA NUIT & LE MOMENT | {vignette} | OU | LES MATINÉES DE CYTHÈRE | PAR | MONSIEUR DE CRÉBILLON LE FILS | — || Title-page (woodcut): CRÉBILLON LE FILS | — | LA NUIT ET LE MOMENT | OU | LES MATINÉES | DE CYTHÈRE | {vignette} | A PARIS | AUX DEPENS D'UN AMATEUR | — | M CM XXIV || Limitation: De cette édition il a été tiré un exemplaire unique sur japon impérial comportant dix aquarelles originales, deux cents trente exemplaires sur vélin d' Arches numérotés 1 à 230, dont les dix premiers avec une suite de hors texte sur japon. N° 1 [Print run limited to 230 copies on Arches plus a unique copy on Japon with original watercolours, this is copy № 1 on wove paper]. Seller’s description: La Nuit et le moment ou Les Matinées de Cythère. Paris, Au dépens d'un amateur, 1924. In-4, en feuilles, non rogné, couverture illustrée et étui. Ouvrage illustré de 4 gravures sur bois et de 10 eaux-fortes libres en couleurs hors texte de Sylvain Sauvage. Tirage à 231 exemplaires, celui-ci le n°1 sur vélin d'Arches. Manque la suite de hors texte sur japon. De la bibliothèque du Comte Tony de Vibraye, avec cachet à froid. Dutel, n°2062. Catalogue raisonné: honesterotica.com; Dutel III 2062. Contributors: Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon [Crébillon fils] (French, 1707 – 1777) – author. Sylvain Sauvage [Félix Roy] (French, 1888 – 1948) – artist. Provenance: Antoine Henri Gaston Hurault de Vibraye [Comte Tony de Vibraye] (French, 1893 – 1951) -
Title: О. Б. ЛЕПЕШИНСКАЯ, | действительный член Академии медицинских наук, | лауреат Сталинской премии. | Происхождение клеток | из живого вещества | [blank] | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО ЦК ВЛКСМ | "МОЛОДАЯ ГВАРДИЯ" | 1951 || Pagination: original pictorial wrappers with portrait in frame, [1-2] – t.p. / imprint., 3-37 [38] [2] – blank / colophon. -
Cover: Вадим Скуратовский | ПРОБЛЕМА АВТОРСТВА | "ПРОТОКОЛОВ | СИОНСКИХ МУДРЕЦОВ" | Дух і літера || Title page: Logo in the upper-left corner: «Ю» БIБЛIОТЕКА | IНСТИТУТУ | ЮДАЇКИ | text in the middle: Вадим Скуратовский | ПРОБЛЕМА АВТОРСТВА | "ПРОТОКОЛОВ | СИОНСКИХ МУДРЕЦОВ" | Киев | 2001 || Pagination: [1-3] 4-241 [242 advert.] Text in Russian. Ukrainian title: Вадим Скуратiвський. Проблема авторства "Протоколiв сiонських старшин" // Київ: "Дух і літера", 2001. -
Vol. 1: Front cover and title page: LES CONTES | DE BOCCACE | ☙ DECAMERON ❧ | TRADUIT DE L'ITALIEN | PAR | ANTOINE LE MAÇON | LES CINQ | PREMIÈRES JOURNÉES | ILLUSTRATIONS DE | BRUNELLESCHI | {vignette} | GIBERT JEUNE | LIBRAIRIE D'AMATEURS | 61, BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL, 61 | PARIS || Pagination: [6] 1-342 [343-4] [10], 16 colour plates and 70 b/w head- and tailpieces after Umberto Brunelleschi. Vol. 2: Front cover and title page: LES CONTES | DE BOCCACE | ☙ DECAMERON ❧ | TRADUIT DE L'ITALIEN | PAR | ANTOINE LE MAÇON | LES CINQ | DERNIÈRES JOURNÉES | ILLUSTRATIONS DE | BRUNELLESCHI | {vignette} | GIBERT JEUNE | LIBRAIRIE D'AMATEURS | 61, BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL, 61 | PARIS || Pagination: [6] 1-281 [282] [10], 16 colour plates and 68 b/w head- and tailpieces after Umberto Brunelleschi. Edition: Limited to 2,500 copies, of which this is № 1. Edition supplemented with two full extra sets of plates, 32 in black and white, and 32 in colour. Printed on June 25, 1934. Binding: 26.5 x 20.5 cm; cream flapped wrappers (French softcover) with green and black lettering and vignettes to front cover and spine, publisher’s device on the back; uncut copy. Paper: Vélin de Navarre (wove paper), size: 260 x 200 mm. Contributors: Giovanni Boccaccio (Italian, 1313 – 1375) – author. Antoine Le Maçon (French, c. 1500 – 1559) – translator. Umberto Brunelleschi (Italian, 1879 – 1949) – artist. Malexis, Louis (French, 20 century) – mise en page. Coulouma, Robert (French, 1887 – 1976), Imprimerie Coulouma (Argenteuil) – printer, H. Barthélemy – director. Dantan, A. – engraver (probably from the family of Edouard Joseph Dantan (French, 1848 – 1897) Charpentier, E. – colour au pochoir. Compare this copy with a small one-volume reprint of 1941: [LIB-2773.2021]. Description of the stensil (au pochoir) technique. -
Softcover, 8vo, 18.8 x 12 cm in publisher’s wrappers, lettered to front and spine, pp.: [i-vii] viii-xiii [xiv], [1-3] 4-268 [6], total 144 leaves; collation: [1]-188. Front wrapper (green and black): Liberté de l’Esprit | COLLECTION DIRIGÉE PAR RAYMOND ARON | DIALOGUE AUX ENFERS | entre | MACHIAVEL | et | MONTESQUIEU | par | MAURICE JOLY | {publisher’s device} | Calmann-Lévy || Title-page: MAURICE JOLY | DIALOGUE AUX ENFERS | entre | MACHIAVEL | et | MONTESQUIEU | ou | LA POLITIQUE DE MACHIAVEL | AU XIXe SIÈCLE | par un contemporain | CALMANN-LÉVY, ÉDITEURS | 3, RUE AUBER — PARIS || Imprint: Premier tirage, Février, 1848. Colophon: Printed on March 10, 1948 by Floch (Mayenne). Subject: Political ethics; Niccolò Machiavelli (Italian, 1469 – 1527); Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (French, 1689 – 1755; Protocols of the elders of Zion; Political science; France – Politics and government – 1848-1870; Napoleon III. Contributors: Maurice Joly (French, 1829 – 1878) – author. Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (French-Jewish, 1905 – 1983) – editor of the series. Calmann-Lévy (Paris) – publisher. -
Paperback brochure, 22.6 x 16 cm, brown wrappers, lettered in red and black: И. С. ТУРГЕНЕВЪ. | КАЗНЬ | ТРОПМАНА | ИЗЪ ЛИТЕРАТУРНЫХЪ | И ЖИТЕЙСКИХЪ ВОСПОМИНАНIЙ. | РИСУНКИ | Марселя Слодкаго | {fleuron} | КНИГОИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | «ГЕЛИКОНЪ» | МОСКВА - БЕРЛИНЪ | MCMXXII ||; 8 full-page, incl. frontispiece, and 5 smaller vignettes after Marcel Slodki, within pagination. Title-page: И. С. ТУРГЕНЕВЪ. | КАЗНЬ | ТРОПМАНА | ИЗЪ ЛИТЕРАТУРНЫХЪ | И ЖИТЕЙСКИХЪ ВОСПОМИНАНIЙ | Рисунки | МАРСЕЛЯ СЛОДКАГО. | Книгоиздательство | “ГЕЛИКОНЪ” | МОСКВА - БЕРЛИНЪ | MCMXXII || Imprint: Эта книга отпечатана въ типографiи Sinaburg & Co., G.m.b.H. | Berlin для книгоиздательства “Геликонъ” в декабрѣ | 1921 г. Клише работы Römmler & Jonas, Dresden. || Pagination: [4] blanks, [2] publisher’s device / imprint, [2] blank / frontis. (Turgenev’s portrait), [2] t.p. / blank, [2] f.t. / blank, 11-57 [58] text, [4] blanks. Contributors: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев [Ivan Turgenev] (Russian, 1818 – 1883) – author. Марсель Слодкий [Marcel Slodki] (Jewish-Ukrainian, 1892 – 1944) – artist Jean-Baptiste Troppmann (French, 1849 – 1870) – character. -
![Charles Virmaitre. Paris-police. — Paris: E. Dentu, 1886. — pp.: [2 wrapper], [2 half-title], 2 title] 1-359 [1 blank], back wrapper.](https://varshavskycollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/LIB-1130.2016-d-scaled-500x500.jpeg)
Cover: (black and red in red frame) PARIS POLICE | par | Ch. Virmaitre | PARIS | E. DENTU, ÉDITEUR | LIBRAIRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES GENTES DE LETTRES | Palais-Royal, 15-17-19, Galerie d’Orléans | 1886 || Title page: CH. VIRMAITRE | PARIS–POLICE | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | E. DENTU, ÉDITEUR | LIBRAIRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES GENTES DE LETTRES | PALAIS-ROYAL, 15-17-19, GALERIE D’ORLEANS | 1886 | Tous droits réservés. || Pagination : 3 blank leaves, original pictorial wrapper, [4], [1] 2-359 [360 blank], original back wrapper with publisher's advertisement, 3 blank leaves. Collation: 12mo; π2, 1-1912 206. Binding: owner's hardcover, quarter burgundy percaline, marbled boards, brown title label with gilt lettering, gilt double tail ruler, year, and fleuron to spine; original paper wrappers preserved. -
Cover: LA | NOUVELLE PHÈDRE | ET | LE DIRECTEUR DE L'ODEON | PAR | PAGES (DU TARN) | PRIX : 50 CENTIMES | PARIS | GUSTAVE HAVARD, LIBRAIRE–ÉDITEUR | BOULEVARD SÉBASTOPOL (RIVE GAUCHE) et rue de la Harpe. | 1858 || Pagination: [1-3] 4-48. Collation: 8vp; [1]-38 (total 24 leaves) Binding: publisher’s wrappers. Printer: Imprimerie Bonaventure et Ducessois (Paris); Ducessois, Théodore (French, 1804 – after 1864.) Bonaventure, Jules-Frédéric (French, ca. 1816 – 1891) Pagès (du Tarn) (French, fl. 1838 – 1872) – known absolutely nothing. Other works: La France, ode (M. Papailhiau, 1840); Aux Électeurs ... du Tarn (Soupe, 1848) ; Les Funérailles de Napoléon, ode (Pilout, 1840) ; Mazagran, 4, 5 et 6 février 1840, chant héroïque (M. Papailhiau, 1840) ; Herminie, ou l'Amour et l'honneur, tragédie en 5 actes, en vers (Moquet, 1872) ; Lettre à S.E. le ministre de l'Intérieur sur la nouvelle Phèdre et le Théâtre français (Moquet, 1856), etc. There is also a humorous book by Antony de Menou, which does not contain anything of substance: Un contemporain: biographie de Pagès (du Tarn). — Paris: Masgana, 1857. Antony de Menou is an obscure figure in his own right. An article about him can be found at Les derniers bohêmes by Firmin Maillard (1833 – 1901) [LIB-2652.2021].
