Léo Larguier. La Poupée / Dessins de Chas Laborde. (La rose et le laurier). — Paris: G. Briffaut, 1925.

Description: owner’s quarter green morocco over marbled boards, 21.5 x 16.5 cm, collated 8vo, illustrated with numerous in-text and 5 full-page coloured etchings after drawings by Chas Laborde. Original publisher’s wrappers preserved, enriched with a set of 17 plates in black and white (bound in).

Front wrapper (black and red): LÉO LARGUIER | LA POUPÉE | DESSINS DE CHAS LABORDE | {vignette} | COLLECTION | “LA ROSE ET LE LAURIER” | G. BRIFFAUT, Éditeur | 4, RUE DE FURSTENBERG, PARIS ||

Title-page: LÉO LARGUIER | — | LA POUPÉE | DESSINS DE | CHAS LABORDE | {vignette} | COLLECTION DE | “LA ROSE ET LE LAURIER” | G. BRIFFAUT, Éditeur | 4, RUE DE FURSTENBERG, PARIS (VI^e) | M CM XXV ||

Collation: Three binder’s blanks, 1 front wrapper, 1 blank, 1 h.t./limit., 1 t.p., 1 epigraph, 1-6⁸ 7⁴ (last blank), plates within collation, 1 back wrapper, three binder’s blanks, plus 17 leaves of b/w plates.

Pagination: not counting wrappers, [6] (h.t., t.p., epigraph) 1-99 [100] [4], ils.

Limitation: A print run of 770 copies on April 25, 1925, by Coulouma (Argenteuil) under the direction of H. Barthélemy , of which 10 copies on Japon Impérial (№ 1-10) + one drawing + one b/w suite, 10 copies on Japon Impérial (№ 11-20) + one drawing, 750 copies on Vélin (№ 21-770). This is copy № 1 (on Japon Impérial with b/w suite of plates but without the drawing).

Contributors:

Léo Larguier (French, 1878 – 1950) – author.

Chas Laborde [Charles Laborde] (French, 1886 – 1941) – artist.

Georges Briffaut (French, 1886 – 1973) – publisher.