Pictorial title by von Bayros: Die | Bohème. | Scenen aus dem Pariser | Künstlerleben | von | Henri Murger | Leipzig im | InselVerlag | 1906. | F. Bayros ||

Pagination: [2] – pictorial frontispiece, [2] – pictorial t.p., 1-280 [2] – inhalt, [2] – colophon, [2] – blank, + 4 plates drawn by Franz von Bayros and reproduced as photogravure, with guards.

Binding: 23.5 x 15.5 cm, cream parchment, raised bands, gilt-lettered orange morocco label to spine; text printed on laid paper (Linden Paper watermark), untrimmed, illustrations on wove paper as photogravure. Bookplate: “Ex libris Walter Schniewind” engraved by C. L. Becker.

Original title: Henry Murger. Scenes De La Vie De Boheme. — Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1851.

Tirage: 50 copies on laid paper, of which this is № 14 (per Sarkowski: 50 numerierte Ex. auf Bütten. Pergament mit Goldschnitt).

Author: Murger, Henri [Murger, Louis-Henri, Henry] (French, 1822 – 1861).

Translator: Grove, Frederick Philip [Greve, Felix Paul] (German-Canadian, 1879 – 1948).

Illustrator: Bayros, Franz von (Austrian, 1866 – 1924).

Printer: Drugulin, Wilhelm Eduard (German, 1822 – 1879); Offizin W. Drugulin (Leipzig).

Provenance: Schniewind, Walter (German, 1870 – 1927).

Catalogue raisonné: Heinz Sarkowski (1999): № 1175 VA, p. 195; Bayros Zeichnungen, pp. 43-46.