Cover (in red and black): BÉRANGER | CHANSONS | GALANTES | {vignette} ||
Title page (in red and black): BÉRANGER | CHANSONS | GALANTES | ORNEES DE 16 AQUARELLES | PAR | ROJAN | {vignette} | ÉDITIONS DE LA BELLE ÉTOILE | PARIS ||
Pagination: [2] – front wrapper, [2] – blank, [1-4] 5-157 [3] [2] blank, [2] – back wrapper; the total number of pages 168 + 16 plates, numerous in-text head- and tailpieces in black.
Collation: 4to; [1] 2-214, wrapped leaves included in collation; the total number of leaves 84 + 16 plates.
Colour illustrations: 16 full-page colour plates and 4 colour headpieces are produced by the so-called Duval-Beaufumé process (collotype and stencil) of reproductions after Rojan’s watercolours.
Tirage: Limited edition of 1500 copies, of which this is № 1434.
Binding: Publisher’s French flapped cream wrappers with red and black lettering to front wrapper and black lettering to spine, wove paper (vélin Navarre), uncut.
Size: 243 x 195 mm.
Contributors:
Béranger, Pierre-Jean de (French, 1780 – 1857) – author.
Rojankovsky, Feodor [Rojan; Рожанковский, Фёдор Степанович] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970) – artist.
NOTE on technique:
Micro-photography reveals that this is not a collotype but some sort of photochemical reproduction method, such as a halftone screen. The colour was applied with a stencil, indeed.