Front wrapper (in black and blue): PAUL MORAND | L’EUROPE | GALANTE | QUINZE LITHOGRAPHES | HORS TEXTE ORIGINALES | DE VERTÈS | {vignette} | LE MIROIR DES MŒURS | LES ARTS ET LE LIVRE | =| M. CM. XXVII ||
Title-page (in black and blue): PAUL MORAND | L’EUROPE | GALANTE | ORNÉ DE QUINZE | LITHOGRAPHES ORIGINALES | PAR VERTÈS | {vignette} | LE MIROIR DES MŒURS | LES ARTS ET LE LIVRE | 17 Rue Froidevaux (XIVe) | =| M. CM. XXVII ||
Pagination: [1-9] 10-245 [7], and 2 leaves under the wrappers, ils.
Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-168; first and last leaves under wrappers; total 128 leaves and 17 plates extraneous to collation (two more than the declared 15).
Binding: 20.5 x 14.5, French flapped tan wrappers with lettering and vignette, lettering to spine.
Printed on May 30, 1927 at l’Imprimerie du Livre, Rueil (Henri Filipacchi, director); under supervision of Georges-Célestin Crès.
Edition: 3rd book is the series “Le miroir des mœurs”, limited to 1165 copies of which 65 on Papier d’Annam, 15 of them not for sale, numbered 1-50 and 51-65, respectively; 1100 copies on Vélin teinté de Rives (100 of them not for sale), numbered 66-1065 and 1066-1165, respectively. This copy is № 474.
Contributors:
Paul Morand (French, 1888 – 1976) – author.
Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist.
Les arts et le livre; Georges-Célestin Crès (French, 1875 – 1935) – publisher.
l’Imprimerie du Livre (Rueil); Henri Élie Michel Filipacchi [Flippaki] (French, 1900 – 1961) – printer.
Other names: Marcel Vertès, Marcel Vertes, Marcell Vértes
