Title-page (red and black): HENRI COHEN | – | GUIDE DE L’AMATEUR | DE | LIVRES A GRAVURES | DU XVIIIᵉ SIÈCLE | — | SIXIÈME ÉDITION | REVUE, CORRIGÉE ET CONSIDÉRABLEMENT AUGMENTÉE | PAR | SEYMOUR DE RICCI | — | PREMIÈRE PARTIE | {publisher’s device} | — | PARIS | LIBRAIRIE A. ROUQUETTE | 18, Rue La Fayette, 18 | 1912 ||
Author: Henri Cohen (French, 1808–1880)
Editor: Seymour de Ricci (French, 1881–1962)
Title: Guide de l’amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle
Edition: 6th edition, revised, corrected, and considerably expanded by Seymour de Ricci
Place of publication / Publisher / Date: Paris: A. Rouquette, 1912
Pagination: [4] (half-title, title-page, final leaf of vol. 1, colophon), xxvi, 1248 pages (double pagination throughout: each leaf bearing two page numbers, e.g., p. 1 = 1/2, p. 2 = 3/4, etc.)
Format: Octavo (247 × 180 mm)
Volumes: 2 volumes bound as 1; original wrapper and spine preserved and bound in
Collation:
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Vol. 1: [2 blank flyleaves] + [original wrapper] + half-title + title-page + [i] ii–xxvi + pp. 1/2 – 667/668 + [1 unnumbered final leaf with “Fin du tome premier”] + plates, incl. frontis.
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Vol. 2: begins with letter M at p. [669/670], continues through 1247/1248 + [1 unnumbered colophon leaf] + back wrapper + spine + plates.
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Signatures: π⁷ ii⁸, 1-218, 22-398 402; total: 329 leaves plus unnumbered inserted photomechanical plates
Binding: Contemporary three-quarter black morocco over marbled boards; spine gilt with floral ornament and title; marbled endpapers; original wrapper of vol. 1 preserved; vol. 2 wrappers not retained
Illustrations: Frontispiece after Fragonard, engraved headpieces and tailpieces at each alphabetical section, and unnumbered inserted photomechanical plates
Print run: 1050 numbered copies:
• 50 on Holland paper (nos. 1–50)
• 1000 on vellum paper (nos. 51–1050)
—all copies numbered at the press
Printing: Printed in Melun by Émile Legrand, completed 25 June 1912
Note: Authoritative reference work on 18th-century French illustrated books; this copy includes both volumes bound in one
A luxury edition of the same work, printed on laid (Holland) paper and issued in two separate volumes, is also held in this collection under the accession number LIB-2541.2020.
