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NEWHardcover, 130 x 87 mm boards, 124 x 79 mm block, full mottled sheepskin, gilt-tooled flat spine, gilt fleurons in compartments, crimson morocco label lettered in gilt, board edges tooled gilt; marbled endpapers, bookseller ticket and bookplate “ GERARD NORDMANN EX-LIBRIS”; text and plates printed on laid paper. Collated 18mo: A-M6 (i.e. 72 leaves); pp.:[1-3] 4-143 [144], plus 8 engraved plates, incl. frontispiece, plus one flyleaf in the front and one in the rear. Title-page: BIBLIOTHÈQUE | DES | PAILLARDS, | CHOIX DE POÉSIES | EROTIQUES. | — | A PARIS, | Chez Madame BELLE MOTTE; | rue des Déchargeurs. | AU TEMPLE DE LA VOLUPTÉ. || Title-page: ELÉONORE, | OU | L'HEUREUSE PERSONNE. | Deuxième Édition. | — | A PARIS, | Chez les Marchands de nouveautés. |— | AN VIII. || Faux-t.p.: LA | COMTESSE | D'OLONNE, | COMEDIE | DE M. DE BUSSI RABUTIN. || Table des matières. Épitre dédicatoire La Foutro-Manie Ode à Priape Quatrain du comte de Guiche à M. d'Olonne La Comtesse d'Olonne, comédie Mon testament Le Chapitre général des Cordeliers Le débauché converti La gageure, conte Étymologie de l'Aze-te-foute, conte. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel I № A-146, p. 63; Nordmann II № 90. Provenance: Gérard Nordmann (Swiss, 1930 – 1992).
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NEWHardcover, 132 x 86 mm boards, 127 x 78 mm block, full brown mottled calf bordered with triple gilt fillet, flat spine tooled in gilt, gilt fleurons in compartments, black title label with gilt lettering, board edge tooled gilt, gilt dentelle inside, marbled endpapers, “MK” and “EX-LIBRIS • YVES • REFOULÉ” bookplates to front pastedown (the latter by Picart after Georges Leone), block of watermarked laid paper (Van Gilder?), all edges gilt; text with tall ‘s’. Title-page: L'ARETIN | FRANÇOIS, | PAR UN MEMBRE | DE L'ACADÉMIE DES DAMES. | (in rules) J'appelle un Chat, un Chat. / BOILEAU. | {fleuron} | A LONDRES. | — | 1787. || Faux-t.p.: LES ÉPICES | DE VÉNUS | OU |PIECES DIVERSES | DU MÊME ACADEMICIEN. | (in rules) Les plus intolérans sont les plus vicieux. / ANONYME. | {fleuron} | A LONDRES. | — | 1787. || Collation 18mo: Two ffl at front and two at rear, [a1] h.t./blank, [a2] blank/frontis. stanza, frontispiece plate with guard, [a3] t.p./blank, [a4] advert., [a5] intro/blank; after that the structure is following: recto blank/octave stanza on verso, tissue guard, plate on recto, repeated 17 times, χ1 décima stanza ‘Résumé’ (subtotal 23 leaves unsigned, unpaginated); π2 (h.t., t.p.), A-D6 E3 (subtotal 29 leaves), paginated [4] 1-53 [54], plus one plate with guard oppos. p. 8. The total number is 23+29=52 leaves plus 19 plates with tissue guard each and 4 flyleaves. Plates were executed in etching and burin on copper plates by François-Rolland Elluin (French, 1745 – 1810) after Antoine Borel (French, 1743 – 1810). Catalogue raisonné: Fekete № 141; Dutel № A-99; Nordmann II №№ 396, 397; Eros invaincu № 3, p. 26; Cohen de Ricci pp. 89/90. Text attributed to: Nogaret, François-Félix (French, 1740 – 1831)
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NEWTwo volumes in one, 131 x 89 mm, bound in full burgundy morocco, panels ruled with triple gilt fillet, gilt filleted edges, interior gilt dentelle, flat spine with double gilt fillet bands, gilt fleurons in compartments, gilt title label and date at the foot to spine (modern pastiche binding); all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, two bookplates to front pastedown: “MK” and “Ex-libris Yves Refoulé”, the latter drawn by Georges Leone and engraved by Picard. Laid paper with a hardly legible watermark resembles Van Gelder’s beehive. Letterpress head- and tailpieces. Collation 6to: (24mo) t. 1: π3 A-L6 M5; t. 2: χ3 N-Z6 2A6, 2B5, 2 blanks, 100 plates (pl. 32 and 33 is one) within collation, but extraneous to pagination, thus uncounted — pp.: t. 1: [4] 1-48, t. 2: [4] 49-100, total 155 leaves or 310 pages, incl. plates and everything but two binder’s flyleaves at the front and two at the rear. Vigesimo-quarto, 24mo (13 x 9 cm) – typical Cazin’s book format. Title-page: LE | CABINET | DE | LAMPSAQUE, | OU | Choix d'Épigrammes érotiques des plus célebres | Poëtes François. | (in rules) TOME PREMIER/SECOND). | {fleuron putto 1/2} | A PAPHOS. | — | 1784. || One hundred figures are executed by burin on a copper plate and attributed to Claude Louis Desrais (French, 1746 – 1816) or some Leclerc, who is unlikely to be Sébastien Leclerc (1637 – 1714), living 100 years earlier. The author of the text is unknown. Catalogue raisonné: Cohen p.197 – provides for 16mo; Dutel № A-171 – provides for 12mo, pagination as 1-50 and 51-100, and mentions the 1st edition in 1744, but does not provide a description of the latter. “Lampsacus was also notable for its worship of Priapus, who was said to have been born there”.
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NEWTwo volumes, 135 x 85 mm each, uniformly bound in full brown morocco with triple fillet border, flat spine with gilt fleurons and double fillet bands, gilt lettered label, interior dentelle, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; four volumes in two, collated in 12mo. Vol. 1: pp.: [1-5] 6-100, coll.: 1-86 92;(i.e. 50 leaves); [1-5] 6-130; coll.: 1-106 115 (i.e. 65 leaves); plus two blanks in the front and at the rear, and nine plates, incl. frontispiece. Vol. 2: pp.: [1-5] 6-111 [112 blank], coll.: 14 2-96 104 (i.e. 56 leaves); [4 ht, tp] [1] 2-99 [100 blank], coll.: π2 1-86 92 (i.e. 52 leaves); plus two blanks in the front and at rear, and four plates. Title-page: FÉLICIA, | OU | MES FREDAINES. | {in rules} La faute en est aux Dieux qui me firent si folle.| TOME PREMIER/ SECOND/ TROISIÉME/ QUATRIÈME. | —•— | A LONDRES | M. DCC. LXXVI. || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel, A-399, p. 132. Contributors: André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat (French, 1739 – 1800) – author.
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NEWHardcover, 169 x 100 mm, quarter brown sheepskin over speckled paper, flat spine, gilt double fillet bands, crimson morocco label with gilt lettering, printed on French paper watermarked “FIN 1787”; two volumes in one, collated in 12mo. Tome premier: π1 h.t., A8 (A1 t.p., A2,3 Lettre de Sophie au chevalier d'Olzan), B4 C8 D4 E8 F4 G8, H4, I4; pp.: [2] [i-iii] iv-vi, [7] 8-104, plus three plates, p. 24 printed on cream wove paper, pp. 66, 67 on blue laid paper (or pasted on such). Tome second: A8 (incl. h.t. and t.p.) B4 C8 D4 E8 F4 G8 H4 I8 K4, L4; pp.: [1-5] 6-127 [1 blank]; all three plates printed on cream wove paper; plate marked as p.68 is after p. 64, plate marked p.64 is after p. 68, plate p. 79 is on its place. Plates attributed to Louis Binet. Text is attributed mainly to Comte de Mirabeau; however, Guillaume Apollinaire, in his L’Enfer de la Bibliothèque Nationale (1913), believes that Marquis de Sentilly wrote it. Catalogue raisonné: Cohen-de Ricci 709; Dutel I A-988, p. 294. Contributors: Mirabeau, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de (French, 1749 – 1791) Binet, Louis (French, 1744 – 1800) Seller's description: Deux parties en un volume in-12. 165 x 97 mm. Tome premier: I f. n. ch. faux-titre, 104 pp. y compris le titre avec une vignette gravée, la "Lettre de Sophie au chevalier d'Olzan" qui débute l'ouvrage est paginée en chiffres romains. Tome second: 127 pp. tout compris et 1 p. bl. 6 gravures libres non signées qui sont de Binet. Reliure de l'époque. Demi-basane brune, plats de papier coquille moucheté, dos lisse omé de deux filets dorés répétés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouge, lettres dorées, tranches jaspées. Reliure un peu frottée, coins émoussés. Quelques rousseurs. Rarissime deuxième édition de cet Émile de l'éducation sexuelle enrichie de gravures libres attribuables à Binet.
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NEWHardcover, 150 x 110 mm, greyish brown cloth with brown embossed vignette to front, brown lettering to spine, top margin brown, pp.: [1-8] 9-241 [3], collated 8vo: 1-158, 162, i.e. 122 leaves, plus six woodcut plates, extraneous to collation; woodcut head- and tailpieces, vignettes. No dust jacket. Title-page (red and black): ЛИРИКА | ДРЕВНЕЙ ЭЛЛАДЫ | В ПЕРЕВОДАХ РУССКИХ ПОЭТОВ | Собрал и комментировал | Я. Голосовкер | ACADEMIA | 1935 || Contra-title (red and black): АНТИЧНАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | под общей редакцией | Д. А. Горбова, В. О. Нилендера | и П. Ф. Преображенского | ЛИРИКА | ДРЕВНЕЙ ЭЛЛАДЫ | ACADEMIA | Москва – Ленинград || Title verso: Гравюры на дереве художника | М. И. Пикова | Переплет по его же рисунку || Print run: 5300 copies. Printer: Печатный двор (Л.) / Полиграфкнига Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 743, p. 265. Contributors: Голосовкер, Яков Эммануилович [Яків Еммануїлович] (Ukrainian-Jewish, 1890 – 1967) – compiler/foreword/comments Пиков, Михаил Иванович (Russian, 1903 – 1973) – artist, wood engraver
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NEWHardcover, 150 x 108 mm, blue cloth red embossed vignette to front, red lettering to spine; pp. [2] 5-97 [3], collated 8vo: 17, 2-68 72, i.e. 49 leaves plus four plates, incl. frontispiece, extraneous to collation, leaf 11 missing or published without it. No dust jacket. Title-page (red and black): ЭСХИЛ | ПРИКОВАННЫЙ | ПРОМЕТЕЙ | Перевод, статья | и комментарии | Адр. Пиотровского | ACADEMIA | 1935 || Imprint: Фронтиспис и рисунки – фототипии с офортов М. А. Доброва. Супер и переплет по его же рисункам. Заставки и концовки выполнены автоцинкографией. Print run: 5300 copies. Printer: Красный пролетарий (М). Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 789, p. 272. Contributors: Aeschylus [Эсхил, Αἰσχύλος] (Greek, 525 – 456 BC) – author. Пиотровский, Адриан Иванович [Piotrovsky, Adrian] (Russian, 1898 – 1937) – translator, killed by the Soviet State on November 21, 1937. Добров, Матвей Алексеевич (Russian, 1877 – 1958) – artist.
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NEWHardcover, 254 x 190 mm, brown cloth with black and gilt vignette to front, gilt lettering to front and spine, pictorial endpapers, yellow pictorial dust jacket, collated 8vo: 1-248, i.e. 192 leaves, pp.: [1-7] 8-379 [5]; woodcut h.-t., t.p., faux-title, 12 book titles, initials, tail-pieces, and dust jacket. Woodcut title-page: ВЕРГИЛИЙ | ЭНЕИДА | (white on black) ПЕРЕВОД | ВАЛЕРИЯ БРЮСОВА | И | СЕРГЕЯ СОЛОВЬЕВА | РЕДАКЦИЯ, | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ | И КОММЕНТАРИИ | Н. Ф. ДЕРАТАНИ || Woodcut half-title: ПАМЯТНИКИ МИРОВОЙ | ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | ВЕРГИЛИЙ | ЭНЕИДА | Academia | МОСКВА – ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1933 || Imprint (t.p. verso): P. VERGILII MARONIS | ÆNEIS | Супер-обложка и орнаментация книги (гравюры на дереве), | переплет и форзац работы Л. С. Хижинского || Print run: 5300 copies Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 529, p. 230. Contributors: Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro; Вергилий] (Roman, 70 BC – 19 BC) Брюсов, Валерий Яковлевич [Bryusov, Valery] (Russian, 1873 – 1924) Соловьёв, Сергей Михайлович (Russian, 1885 – 1942) Дератани, Николай Фёдорович (Russian, 1884 – 1958) Хижинский, Леонид Семёнович [Khizhinsky, Leonid] (Soviet, 1896 – 1972)
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NEWHardcover, 252 x 190 mm, green cloth with gilt vignettes to front and back, and gilt lettering to spine, pictorial endpapers, collated 8vo: 1-108 114, i.e. 84 leaves, pp.: [1-7] 8-166 [2], incl. two engraved faux-titles. Title-page (green and black): ВЕРГИЛИЙ | СЕЛЬСКИЕ | ПОЭМЫ | БУКОЛИКИ | ГЕОРГИКИ | ❧ | ПЕРЕВОД | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ СТАТЬЯ | И КОММЕНТАРИИ | С. ШЕРВИНСКОГО | {VIGNETTE} | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА ~ ЛЕНИНГРАД | MCMXXXIII || Contra-title (green and black): Сокровища мировой литературы | ВЕРГИЛИЙ | БУКОЛИКИ | и | ГЕОРГИКИ | {VIGNETTE} | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА ~ ЛЕНИНГРАД | MCMXXXIII || T.p. verso: PUBLII VERGILI MARONIS | BUCOLICA ET GEORGICA | Титульные листы, супер-обложка, переплет | и форзац по рисункам П. А. Шиллинговского || Print run: 5,300 copies. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 528, p. 230. Contributors: Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro; Вергилий] (Roman, 70 BC – 19 BC) Шервинский, Сергей Васильевич (Russian, 1892 – 1991) Шиллинговский, Павел Александрович (Russian, 1881 – 1942)
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NEWSoftcover comics book, oblong flapped wrappers, 186 x 280 mm, pink border in black rules, black lettering to front, 45 unpaginated leaves (pp. 90) with text and pictorial story, some in-text woodcuts and a tail-piece. No title-page. Catalogue Raisonné: Dutel III, 2424, pp. 368-9. The publication was prosecuted per the French Law of December 20, 1965. Sophie is a re-written version of Puberté. Journal d’une escolière [by Maria Luz],pyblished in 1933 by Éditions Raoul Saillard, Paris. Publisher: Éric Losfeld (Belgian-French, 1922 – 1979)
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NEWPublisher’s tea green French flapped wrappers with double bordered vignette embossed to front, 298 x 295 mm, 18 gatherings in 4to (i.e. 72 leaves), 280 x 190 mm leaves plus one gathering in the wrappers, outer and lower margins untrimmed; pagination: [2] [1-15] 16-136 [4] [2], not counting leaves in the wrappers; paper watermarked “Lana” (grand vélin de Lana a la forme); 16 pictorial etchings and two fac-simile ms etchings within collation, tissue guards; in a double slipcase 306 x 204 mm with a vignette “capital C in ribbons” to spine of the inner chemise. Title-page (lilac and black) PIERRE LOUŸS | CYDALISE | AVEC DES ILLUSTRATIONS ORIGINALES | GRAVES A L'EAU-FORTE | {woodcut vignette} | LES AMIS DE L'ÉCRIVAIN | — | PARIS | M C M X L I X || Limitation: JUSTIFICATION DU TIRAGE | CETTE ÉDITION ORIGINALE | DU LIVRE DE CYDALISE A ETÉ, POUR SON TIRAGE, LIMITÉE | A DEUX CENT SOIXANTE CINQ EXEMPLAIRES | DONT LA DISTRIBUTION S'EFFECTUE DE LA | FAÇON SUIVANTE. […] DEUX CENTS EXEMPLAIRES SUR GRAND VELIN DE LANA A LA FORME NUMÉROTÉS DE 51 A 250. […] EXEMPLAIRE N° 91 || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 1333, p. 116; Nordmann II № 309, 151. Ref: honesterotica.com Contributors: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925) – author. Jean Traynier (French, fl. 1942 – 1957) – artist (attributed)
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NEWSoftcover, 170 x 120 mm, in white publisher’s wrappers, vignette to front by A.-M. Carmant, red and black lettering to both covers, red lettering to spine, pp.: [1-3 4-109 [3]. ISBN 2-911314-02-6. Title-page: Maurice Joly | Le Plébiscite | Épilogue | du Dialogue aux Enfers | entre Machiavel et Montesquieu | précédé de | César | paris-zanzibar || Front cover (red and black): maurice joly | le plébiscite | épilogue du dialogue aux enfers | entre machiavel et montesquieu | {vignette par A.-M. Carmant | paris-zanzibar || Contents: Préface : F. Leclercq. Maurice Joly, un suicidé de la démocratie César Épilogue au Dialogue aux Enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu. Premier dialogue. L' arsenal de Machiavel II. L'appel au peuple III. Le plébiscite IV. La noyade parlementaire V. Le oui et le non VI. Comment Montesquieu votera-t-il VIIe et dernier dialogue. Non Annexe La Cloche, dimanche 19 juin 1870 Maurice Joly, son passé, son programme par lui-même (extrait)
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NEWPaperback, 234 x 163 mm, front wrapper: ВЕНЕДИКТ ЕРОФЕЕВ | МОСКВА – ПЕТУШКИ | {vignette} | YMCA-PRESS | PARIS || The vignette is a photomechanical reproduction in colour of a fragment of the painting by Vyacheslav Kalinin “A thirsty man”; spine: ВЕНЕДИКТ ЕРОФЕЕВ — МОСКВА - ПЕТУШКИ ||; pagination: [1-4] 5-73 [3]. Title-page: ВЕНЕДИКТ ЕРОФЕЕВ | МОСКВА - ПЕТУШКИ | YMCA ~ PRESS | 11, rue de la Montagne-Ste-Geneviève – 75005 Paris, France. || Colophon: ACHEVÉ D'IMPRIMER | LE 18 AVRIL 1977 | PAR JOSEPH FLOCH | MAITRE-IMPRIMEUR | A MAYENNE | NO 5923 || Венедикт Васильевич Ерофеев [Venedikt Yerofeyev] (Russian, 1938 – 1990) – author. Вячеслав Васильевич Калинин [Vyacheslav Kalinin] (Russian-American, 1939 – 2022) – artist/cover
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NEWHardcover, 330 x 255 mm, marble paper, two labels of black calf with gilt lettering to spine, 2 blank leaves at front and 2 at back (laid paper), two leaves of lithographic vignettes (t.p. and limitation), plus 20 lithographic plates signed “am”, unpaginated. Limited edition of 25 copies on Japon Impérial paper №№ 1-25, 300 copies on Vélin d’Arches №№ 26-325, of which this is copy № 206. Stones sanded. A poem by Verlaine at p. 2 recto. Title-page: L'Académie | DES | Dames | VINGT ATTITUDES PAR | ALBERT MARQUET | {vignette} | NEW YORK | SIXTY-NINTH AVENUE || Imprint: ÉDITION PRIVÉE | EXEMPLAIRE NUMERO 206 Limitation: JUSTIFICATION DU TIRAGE | IL A ÉTÉ TIRÉ DE CET OUVRAGE | VINGT-CINQ EXEMPLAIRES SUR JAPON IMPÉRIAL | NUMÉROTÉS DE 1 à 25 | ET TROIS CENTS EXEMPLAIRES SUR VÉLIN D'ARCHES | NUMÉROTÉS DE 26 à 325 | PIERRES BIFFÉES || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel III № 949; Nordmann I № 255. Provenance: From the collection of Hans-Jürgen Döpp, Frankfurt. Contributors: Albert Marquet (French, 1875 – 1947) Verlaine, Paul (French, 1844 – 1896) One additional lithographic plate by Marquet from a different source but on a similar subject is laid in.
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NEWHardcover, 175 x 125 mm, red cloth, blind/gilt floral design to front, same and gilt lettering to spine, pictorial endpapers, collated 8vo: 1-228 232, i.e. 178 leaves, pp.: [1-6] 7-354 [2], plus 12 b/w photomechanical plates, extraneous to collations; faux-title, initials, tail-pieces, and dust jacket engraved after Sarra Shor. Missing dust jacket. Title-page (red and black): ПОДЖО | БРАЧЧОЛИНИ | ФАЦЕТИИ | {fleuron} | ПЕРЕВОД С ЛАТИНСКОГО, | КОММЕНТАРИЙ | И | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНЫЯ СТАТЬЯ | А. К. ДЖИВЕЛЕГОВА | ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ | А. В. ЛУНАЧАРСКОГО (post-mortem frame) | ACADEMIA | MCMXXXIV || Opposite t.p. (red and black): ИТАЛЬЯНСКАЯ | ЛИТЕРАТУРА | ПОД ОБЩЕЙ РЕДАКЦИЕЙ | А. К. ДЖИВЕЛЕГОВА | {vignette} | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА-ЛЕНИНГРАД || Title verso (imprint) : Poggius Florentinus | Facctiarum liber | Инициалы, рисунки, титул, форзац, | переплет и супер-обложка | Сарры Шор || Printer: Красный пролетарий (М). Print run: 5,300 copies. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 614, p. 244. Contributors: Браччолини, Поджо – Bracciolini, Poggio (Italian, 1380 – 1459) – author Дживелегов, Алексей Карпович (Russian-Armenian, 1875 – 1952) – translator/editor Луначарский, Анатолий Васильевич (Russian, 1875 – 1933) – foreword Шор, Сарра Марковна (Soviet-Jewish, 1897 – 1981) – artist
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NEWHardcover, 253 x 190 mm, pink cloth, gilt monogram inside gilt-ruled borders, fleurons in corners, pictorial endpapers, collated 8vo: 1-118, i.e. 88 leaves, pp.: [1-7] 8-171 [5], plus 20 lithographic plates by Vladimir Konashevich, incl. frontispiece, extraneous to collations; pictorial dust jacket. Engraved title in red and black: Аббат | Прево | — | Манон | Леско | — | С РИСУНКАМИ | Вл. Конашевича | ПЕРЕВОД | М. А. Петровского | ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ | А. К. Виноградова | Academia | Москва-Ленинград | 1932 || Engraved half-title in red and black: СОКРОВИЩА | МИРОВОЙ | ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | Аббат | Прево | — | Манон | Леско | ▤ | Academia | Москва-Ленинград | 1932 || Title verso (imprint, red and black) : Antoine François | Prévost d'Exiles | MANON | LESCAUT | Lithographies | de V. Konachevitch || Printer : Типография им. Ивана Федорова (Л). Print run: 5,250 copies. Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 505, p. 226. Contributors: Прево, Антуан Франсуа [Аббат Прево] Antoine François Prévost [l’abbé Prévost] (French, 1697 – 1763) Петровский, Михаил Александрович (Russian, 1887 – 1937) – translator Виноградов, Анатолий Корнелиевич (Russian, 1888 – 1946) – preface Конашевич, Владимир Михайлович [Konashevich, Vladimir] (Russian, 1888 – 1963) – artist Рерберг, Иван Фёдорович (Russian, 1892 – 1957) – artist/binding
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NEWHardcover, 245 x 180 mm, olive cloth with an embossed vignette in centre and fleurons in corners to front, lettering to spine, cream dust jacket with lettering and vignettes; collated 8vo: 1-268 +1 278 χ3, i.e. 220 leaves, pp.: [1-6] 7-434 [6] plus frontispiece portrait and five engravings (all collotype reproductions) extraneous to collation, all in the second section «Безумный день, или женитьба Фигаро». Five original illustrations after Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint-Quentin were executed by Louis Michel Halbou, Jean-Baptiste Liénard, and Charles-Louis Lingée, printed by Société littéraire typographique de Kehl, and published by Nicolas Ruault in 1785 (Cohen 125). The frontispiece portrait of Beaumarchais is a collotype reproduction from an etching by Augustin de Saint-Aubin after Charles-Nicolas Cochin, executed in 1773; it was not included in the Kehl edition but taken from Mémoires de M. Caron de Beaumarchais published in 1774. Title-page (red and black): БОМАРШЕ | ТРИЛОГИЯ | ПЕРЕВОД В. Д. МОРИЦА | ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ А. ДЖИВЕЛЕГОВА | ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ Д. Е. МИХАЛЬЧИ | И Л. М. ГАЛИЦКОГО | ACADEMIA | 1934 || Opposite t.p. (red and black): ФРАНЦУЗСКАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | Под общей редакцией | А. М. Эфроса | БОМАРШЕ | (1732 – 1799) | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА – ЛЕНИНГРАД || T.p. verso (imprint): BEAUMARCHAIS | I. LE BARBIER DE SEVILLE, II. LE MARIAGE DE FIGARO, | III. LA MERE COUPABLE | Суперобложка и переплет по рисункам | Д. И. Митрохина || Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 612, p. 243. Original titles: Le Barbier de Séville, ou la Précaution inutile; La Folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro; L'Autre Tartuffe, ou la Mère coupable. Print run: 5,300 copies. Contents: Севильский цирюльник, или тщетная предосторожность Безумный день, или женитьба Фигаро Преступная мать, или новый Тартюф Contributors: [Бомарше, Пьер] Beaumarchais, Pierre (French, 1732 – 1799) – author (Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais) Мориц, Владимир Эмильевич (Russian, 1890 – 1972) (In this publication, he named В. Д. Мориц by mistake; the correct spelling is В. Э. Мориц) – translator Дживелегов, Алексей Карпович (Russian-Armenian, 1875 – 1952) – preface Михальчи, Дмитрий Евгеньевич (Russian,1900 – 1973) – commentary Галицкий, Лев Николаевич (In this publication, he named Л. М. Галицкий by mistake; the correct spelling is Л. Н. Галицкий; dates unknown) – commentary Эфрос, Абрам Маркович (Russian-Jewish, 1888 – 1954) – editor/series Митрохин, Дмитрий Исидорович (Russian, 1883 – 1973) – artist
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NEWHardcover, 197 x 135 mm, light-blue cloth with blind design elements, brown lettering to spine; collated 8vo: i-ii8 1-198 206, i.e. 174 leaves; pp.: [i-vi] vii-xxxi [xxxii], [2] 3-314 [2], plus three-colour woodcut frontispiece before [1], errata slip tipped in at the back; QC slip and reader’s feedback slips laid in. Cream dust jacket with red lettering and a brown vignette woodcut to front, woodcut head- and endpieces. Title-page (red and black): ГРЕЧЕСКИЕ | ЭПИГРАММЫ | Перевод, | статья и примечания | Л. В. Блуменау | Редакция и дополнения | Ф. А. Петровского | ACADEMIA | 1935 || Opposite t.p. (red and black): АНТИЧНАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА | ГРЕЧЕСКИЕ ЭПИГРАММЫ | (VII век до н. э. — IX век н. э.) | ACADEMIA | Москва – Ленинград || T.p. verso (imprint): Фронтиспис, заставки, концовки, | переплет и супер-обложка | Г. А. Ечеистова || Print run: 5300 copies. Printer: Красный пролетарий (М). Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 718, p. 260-1. Contributors: Петровский, Фёдор Александрович (Russian, 1890 –1978) – editor Блюменау, Леонид Васильевич (Russian, 1862 – 1931) – translator Ечеистов, Георгий Александрович (Russian, 1897 – 1946) – artist