Hardcover volume, 22.5 x 19.5 cm, collated 4to, owner’s terracotta cloth with gilt-lettered black label to spine, publisher’s wrappers preserved, pp.:3 ffl, front wrapper, 3 ffl, [2] h.t./limit, [2] t.p./blank, 1-228 [2] 3 ffl, back wrapper, 3 ffl. Collation: π
3 1-31
4 32
3. (130 leaves, incl. plates).
Title-page (pink and black):
Bonne-fille | PAR |
JEAN VIOLLIS | Illustrations de |
DIGNIMONT | {vignette} |
A PARIS |
La Collection Originale |
ÉDITIONS MORNAY | 37, BOULEVARD DU MONTPARNASSE |
MCMXXVI ||
Illustrations: 14 full-page colour plates, incl. frontispiece and endpiece, within collation but not within pagination, verso blank, and numerous head- and tailpieces and in-text stencil-coloured (au pochoir) lithography after André Dignimont. Limitation: A print run of 628 copies for sale, of which 18 on
Japon Ancien, 30 on
Japon Impérial, 90 on
Hollande, 490 on
Rives (139-628), plus 50 copies not for sale. Printed on May 12, 1926, at l’Imprimerie Kapp (Vanves),
this copy is № 380.
Provenance: Feodor Rojankovsky, pictorial bookplate “ИЗ КНИГ РОЖАНКОВСКАГО” to front pastedown, ms inscription to front ffl
2 top “TH. ROJANKOWSKY | 14 VIII 30” in block letters. One of the possible transliterations of Feodor Rojankovsky's name is Theodor Rojankowsky.
Contributors:
Jean-Henri d'Ardenne deTizac [JeanViollis] (French, 1877 – 1932) – author.
André Dignimont (French, 1891 – 1965) – artist.
Frédéric Emile Kapp (French, 1851-193?) – printer.
Georges Mornay (French, 1876 – 1935) et Antoinette Mornay – pubishers.
Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan;
Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970) – provenance.