Front wrapper and title-page (in red and black): LE COFFRET DU BIBLIOPHILE ILLUSTRE | Pamphlets et Tableaux de mœurs intimes | CORRESPONDANCE | DE | Madame Gourdan | dite La Comtesse | INTRODUCTION ET NOTES PAR J. HERVEZ. | POINTES SÈCHES DE | P.-E. BECAT | {device} | PARIS | BIBLIOTHÈQUE DES CURIEUX | 4, rue de Furstenberg, 4 | Édition réservée aux souscripteurs ||
Limitation: L’édition illustrée du “Coffret | du bibliophile” est tirée à 750 | exemplaires, sur vergé de Rives, | – numérotés de 1 à 750 – | № 353 || Limited edition of 750 copies on Rives laid paper, of which this is copy № 353.
Collation: fep, 3 blanks, front wrapper, 3 blanks vergé, [2] h.t. / limit., [2] t.p., [5] 6-188, blank, back wrapper, 3 blanks, fep., plus 12 plates, dry-points by P.-É. Bécat, extraneous to collation, incl. frontispiece.
Binding: 16 x 10.3 cm, red crushed morocco, gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, printed on laid paper, original wrappers preserved.
Contributors:
Marguerite Gourdan [Marguerite Alexandrine Ernestine Stock] (French, c. 1730 –1783) – fictional author.
Jean Hervez (French, 1864 – ?) – author (preface).
Charles Théveneau de Morande (French, 1741 – 1805) – presumable author of the text.
Paul-Émile Bécat (French, 1885 – 1960) – artist.
Bibliothèque des curieux [Georges & Robert Briffaut], Georges Briffaut (French, 1886 – 1973) – publisher.
Previous editions:
First published 1783, under the title: “Le portefeuille de Madame Gourdan” in London by Jean Nourse.
Bibliothèque des curieux, 1910.
Bibliothèque des curieux, 1924.
