Title-page (red and black): RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE | LES | FAIBLESSES | D’UNE | JOLIE FEMME | ILLUSTRATIONS EN COULEURS | DE | RAOUL SERRES | {VIGNETTE} | EDMOND VAIREL, ÉDITEUR | PARIS ||
Description: 25.8 x 17 cm, French flapped wrappers lettered in red and black “LES | FAIBLESSES | D’UNE | JOLIE FEMME” in a 26 x 18 cm tan cloth double slipcase, [1-14] 15-175 [176] [8], collated in-8vo, with 25 colour in-text woodcut vignettes and two tailpieces at the end of each chapter, by Gérard Angiolini after watercolours by Raoul Serres.
Published: April 18, 1951, in Paris.
Edition: 1st thus, limited edition of 1,025 copies, of which this is № 904 of a common print run on Vélin de Rives paper (numbered 101-1,000).
Contributors:
Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne [Nicolas-Edme Rétif] (French, 1734 – 1806) – author.
Raoul Serres [Schem] (French, 1881 – 1971) – artist.
Gérard Angiolini (French, fl. 1946 – 1957) – engraver.
Imprimerie Coulouma (Argenteuil), Robert Coulouma (French, 1887-1976) – printer.
Edmond Vairel (French, 18… – 19…) – publisher, colourist.
