Cover: (original wrapper) PARIS-CANARD| PAR | CH. VIRMAITRE | A. SAVINE, Édeiteur, rue Drouot, 18, PARIS ||
Wood engraving to cover signed LeNatur — Michelet, sc.
Title page: CHARLES VIRMAITRE | PARIS–CANARD | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | NOUVELLE LIBRAIRIE PARISIENNE | ALBERT SAVINE, ÉDITEUR | 18, RUE DROUOT, 18 | 1888 | Tous droits réservés. ||
Pagination: 2 blank leaves, original pictorial wrapper, [4], [1] 2-319 [320 blank], original back wrapper with publisher’s advertisement, 2 blank leaves.
Collation: 12mo; π2, 1-1712 184.
Binding: 18 x 12 cm, hardcover; quarter blue percaline, marbled boards, red title label ruled gilt with gilt lettering, gilt double tail ruler, fleuron to spine; original paper wrappers preserved.
Bookplate to front pastedown: “EX LIBRIS EUGENE SELIGMANN” written on a ribbon; ink inscription to half-title in french: “To my good friends Paul Vogler and Maurice Radiguet, former – for a new acquaintance, latter – to become great.” Signed: Ch. Virmaitre.
Paul Vogler (French, 1853 – 1904) – painter in the Impressionist style.
Jules Maurice Radiguet (French, 1866 – 1941) – illustrator , caricaturist and cartoonist. Father of Raymond Radiguet (French, 1903 – 1923).