Title-page (text in frame): FRANCIS CARCO | RIEN QU’UNE | FEMME | {vignette} | EAUX-FORTES DE | CHAS LABORDE | — | PARIS — M.CM.XXV ||
Description: 4to, 24.5 x 20 cm, owner’s red cloth, yellow leather label with gilt lettering to spine, original wrappers bound in, woodcut bookplate “ИЗ КНИГ Ф.РОЖАНКОВСКАГО” to front pastedown; chapter titles and initials printed in pink.
Collation: fep, 2 blanks before front wrapper, front wrapper with a black lettered pink label, 2 blanks, h.t., t.p., dedication, 1-204 212,2 blanks, rear wrapper, 2 blanks, rep; total 89 leaves within wrappers, plus 15 plates with tissue guards, incl. frontispiece – hand-coloured etchings by Chas [Charles] Laborde, extraneous to collation. In some copies, there are two additional plates.
Pagination: [10] [1] 2-162 [2 colophon/blank] [4], total 178 pages.
Limitation:
Date of printing: September 15, 1925.
Printer: Imprimeur Coulouma (Argenteuil)
Print run: 267 copies of which 1 copy on Japon Ancien (№1), 15 on Japon Impérial (№№ 2-16), 60 on Hollande (№№ 17-76), and 200 copies on Vélin de Rives (№№ 77-276) ; this is copy № 82. Etchings printed on BFK Rives paper (embossed).
Provenance: Rojankovsky, Feodor [Rojan; Рожанковский, Фёдор Степанович] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970).
Contributors:
Francis Carco [François Carcopino-Tusoli] (French, 1886 – 1958) – author.
Chas Laborde [Charles Laborde] (French, 1886 – 1941) – artist.
Roger Lacourière (French, 1892 – 1966) – engraver.
