Pierre-Jean de Béranger. Chansons galantes / Ornées de 16 aquarelles par Rojan. — Paris: Éditions de la Belle Étoile, 1937.

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.

Print run: 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.

Colophon: CE VOLUME, ÉDITÉ PAR PAUL COTINAUD, A ÉTÉ ACHEVÉ D’IMPRIMER LE QUINZE JUIN MIL NEUF CENT TRENTE-SEPT, SUR LES PRESSES DE L’UNION TYPOGRAPHIQUE, HENRI LEDUC, DIRECTEUR. LES AQUARELLES ONT ÉTÉ REPRODUITES PAR LE PROCÉDÉ DUVAL-BEAUFUMÉ.

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.