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Softcover, 8vo, 18.8 x 12 cm in publisher’s wrappers, lettered to front and spine, pp.: [i-vii] viii-xiii [xiv], [1-3] 4-268 [6], total 144 leaves; collation: [1]-188. Front wrapper (green and black): Liberté de l’Esprit | COLLECTION DIRIGÉE PAR RAYMOND ARON | DIALOGUE AUX ENFERS | entre | MACHIAVEL | et | MONTESQUIEU | par | MAURICE JOLY | {publisher’s device} | Calmann-Lévy || Title-page: MAURICE JOLY | DIALOGUE AUX ENFERS | entre | MACHIAVEL | et | MONTESQUIEU | ou | LA POLITIQUE DE MACHIAVEL | AU XIXe SIÈCLE | par un contemporain | CALMANN-LÉVY, ÉDITEURS | 3, RUE AUBER — PARIS || Imprint: Premier tirage, Février, 1848. Colophon: Printed on March 10, 1948 by Floch (Mayenne). Subject: Political ethics; Niccolò Machiavelli (Italian, 1469 – 1527); Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (French, 1689 – 1755; Protocols of the elders of Zion; Political science; France – Politics and government – 1848-1870; Napoleon III. Contributors: Maurice Joly (French, 1829 – 1878) – author. Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (French-Jewish, 1905 – 1983) – editor of the series. Calmann-Lévy (Paris) – publisher. -
Brown cloth 24 x 15.5 cm, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, 'Cowles Library - Drake University' stamps inside and to edges, library card pocket to the pastedown, removed sticker to spine, top edge red, pictorial endpapers, pp.: [i-iv] v-xv [xvi], 1-372, total 388 pages; collated in-16mo: [1]-916 1018 11-1216, total 194 leaves plus four leaves of plates before gathering 6, four leaves of plates before gathering 9, and a folding map at the end, gathering 8 unsigned. Half-title: STUDIES IN URBAN HISTORY I | General Editor: H. J. Dyos | Reader in Urban History at the | University of Leicester || Title-page: The Autumn | of Central Paris | The Defeat of Town Planning 1850-1970 | Anthony Sutcliffe | Research Fellow in Modern History at the | University of Birmingham | {blank} | {publisher’s device} | Edward Arnold || ISBN: 9780713155495; 0713155493. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 1035744553. Contents: Introduction -- The Grand Design -- The Struggle to Complete the Imperial Plan -- The Period of Distractions -- Building in the Right Bank Centre, 1850 -- 1914 -- The Indian Summer of Central Paris -- The Battle for Preservation, 1850-1914 -- The Abandonment of the Grand Design -- The Approach of Obsolescence -- Victory for Preservation -- Conclusion -- Appendix I : Sources -- Appendix 2 : Graphs and Diagrams Anthony Sutcliffe (British, 1942 – 2011) – author. Harold James Dyos (British, 1921–1978) – general editor of the series. -
Vol. 1 : Title : LES | RUES DE PARIS | PARIS ANCIEN ET MODERNE | ORIGINES, HISTOIRE | MONUMENTS, COSTUMES, MŒURS, CHRONIQUES ET TRADITIONS | OUVRAGE | RÉDIGÉ PAR L’ÉLITE DE LA LITTÉRATURE CONTEMPORAINE | SOUS LA DIRECTION DE | LOUIS LURINE | et illustré de 300 dessins exécutés par les artistes les plus distingués | TOME PREMIER | { publisher’s device «G.K.» in vignette} | PARIS | G. KUGELMANN, ÉDITEUR, 25 RUE JACOB | 1844 || Pagination: [4] [1] 2-396 [4], total number of pages 404, plus 21 wood-engraved plates, incl. frontispiece, extraneous to collation. Collation: 4to; π2 [1]4 2-504, total number of leaves 202, plus 21 leaves of plates. Vol. 2: Title: Same, “TOME SECOND”. Pagination: [4] [1] 2-411 [412] [4], total number of pages 420, plus 22 wood engraved plates, incl. frontispiece, extraneous to collation. Collation: 4to; π2, 1-524, total number of leaves 210, plus 22 leaves of plates. Binding: 27 x 17 cm, two volumes uniformly bound by the publisher in brown cloth, blind-stamped frame and gilt design (corners, coat of arms of Paris, lettering) to boards and spine, yellow endpapers. CONTRIBUTORS: Printer: Alfred Wittersheim (French, 1825 – 1881) Publisher: Georges Kugelmann (French, 1809 – 1882) Editor/Compiler: Louis Lurine (French, 1816 – 1860) Texts by: Briffault, Eugène (French, 1799 – 1854); Janin, Jules Gabriel (French, 1804 – 1874); Huart, Louis Adrien (French, 1813 – 1865); Burette, Théodose (French, 1804 – 1847); Beauvoir, Roger de (French, 1806 – 1866); Brot, Charles Alphonse (French, 1807 – 1895); Le Roux de Lincy, Antoine (French, 1806 – 1869); Achard, Louis Amédée Eugène (French, 1814 – 1875). Illustrated book, profusely illustrated with over 300 woodcuts by: Artists: Daumier, Honoré (French, 1808 – 1879); Gavarni , Paul [Chevalier, Hippolyte Guillaume Sulpice] (French, 1804 – 1866); Nanteuil, Célestin François (French, 1813 – 1873); Baron, Henri (French, 1816 – 1885); Beaumont, Édouard de (French, 1821 – 1888); David, Jules (French, 1808 – 1892); Marckl, Louis (French, b. 1807); Schlesinger, Heinrich [Henri-Guillaume] (German-French, 1814 – 1893); Collignon, François Jules (French, d. 1850); Godefroy, Félix (French, 1765 – 1848); Lemercier, Charles Nicolas (French, 1797 – 1859); Loutrel, Victor Jean-Baptiste (French, 1821 – 1908); May, Edouard (French, c. 1807 – 1881); Moraine, Louis-Pierre René de (French, 1816 – 1864); Moynet, Jean Pierre (French, 1819 – 1876); Rossigneux, Charles (French, 1818 – 1907). Engravers: Bara, J. (French, b. c. 1812); Brugnot (French, fl.c. 1834 – 1873); Castan, André (French, 19th century); Budziłowicz, Ignacy (Polish-French, 1805 – 1863); Chevauchet (French, fl. 1837 – 1850); Pégard (French, 19th century); Czechowicz, A. (Polish-French, fl. 1840 – 1850); Debraine, T. Etienne (French, 19th century); Deschamps, M. (French, 19th century); Fauchery, Jean-Claude Auguste (French, 1798 – 1843); Ghouy, de (French, fl. mid-19th century); Montigneul, Émile (French, fl. 1840 – 1850); Joret, J. (French, 19th century); Fity, A. (French, 19th century); Guillaumot, Eugène (French, 1813 – 1869); Halley-Hiback (French, 19th century); Lacoste père et fils (French, fl. 1830s – 1860s); Lenepveu (French, 19th century); Lesestre, Jean Théophile Gustave (French, 1815 – 1873); Pannemaker, Adolphe François (Belgian-French, 1822 – 1900); Piaud, Antoine Alphée (French, 1813 – 1867); Pisan, Héliodore Joseph (French, 1822 – 1890); Pollet A. (French, 1840 – 1860); Pouget, Jean-Achille (French, fl. 1844 – 1877); Porret, Henri Désiré (French, 1800 – 1867); Pontenier, Auguste [Etienne, François] (French, 1820 – 1888); Rose, Alphonse Antoine (French, fl. 1840 – 1860); Timms, J. (English-French, fl. c. 1839 – 1865); Verdeil, Pierre (French, 1812 – 1874); Vien, Alphonse Jean-Baptiste (French, b. 1814). -
Description: 12mo, 17 x 11 cm, quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, marbled end-papers, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, embossed stamp to t.p. “COLPORTAGE CHEMIN DE FER”. Title-page: AFFAIRE | PIERRE BONAPARTE | OU | LE MEURTRE D'AUTEUIL | AVEC PORTRAITS | DU PRINCE PIERRE BONAPARTE & DE VICTOR NOIR | Et nombreuses Gravures, telles que : | SCÈNE DU MEURTRE DANS LE SALON D'AUTEUIL. | LA CHAMBRE DE VICTOR NOIR, | VICTOR NOIR SUR SON LIT DE MORT, | LE PRINCE PIERRE A LA CONCIERGERIE, ETC. | — | Prix : 1 fr. 10 c., franco. | — | PARIS | A. CHEVALIER, EDITEUR | 61, RUE DE RENNES, 61 | 1870. Collation: 18mo; odd [1]-918; 5 x 18 = 90 leaves total. Pagination: [2] [3] 4-177 [178]; total 180 pages. Contributors: Armand Le Chevalier (French, 1802 – 1873) – publisher. Prince Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte (French, 1815 – 1881) – character. Victor Noir [b. Yvan Salmon] (French-Jewish, 1848 – 1870) – character. -
Softcover, in pictorial wrappers, 28 x 21.7 cm, 70 entries, with colour illustrations. Catalogue of the sales exhibition on March 17-24, 2023 in NY; pagination: [1-3] 4-142 [2], ils. Invitation card laid in. Contributor: Sebastian Izzard -
Exterior: 4to, 27.3 x 18 cm, quarter black morocco over marbled boards, double gilt fillet border, spine with raised bands, compartments framed in gilt with gilt fleurons, black label lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers. Inscription to half-title in the bottom: no 411. Bookplate to front pastedown. Title-page: LES | PRISONS DE PARIS | HISTOIRE, TYPES, MŒURS, MYSTÈRES | PAR | MAURICE ALHOY ET LOUIS LURINE | ÉDITION ILLUSTRÉE. | {vignette} | PARIS — 1846 | PUBLIÉ PAR GUSTAVE HAVARD | 24, RUE DES MATHURINS-SAINT-JACQUES. || Printer: Lacrampe et Comp. Collation: 4to; π2 a4 1-684 χ2; total 280 leaves and 34 leaves of plates. Pagination: first and last leaves blank; [2 -h.t./imprint.] [2 - t.p./blank] [2 dedication/blank] [i intro] ii-vi, [1] 2-544 [2 - list of plates/advert.] [2 - contents/blank]; total 560 pages, plus 34 wood-engraved plates, incl. a frontispiece by Laisne after Bertall, and numerous in-text woodcuts. Provenance: Bookplate of Selim Hippolyte Ansart (French, 1829 – 1897), commissar of police in the Second Empire and shortly after (chef de la police municipaie ; chevalier du 13 août 1867; vingt-trois ans de service effectif). Authors: Philadelphe-Maurice Alhoy (French, 1802 – 1856) Louis Lurine (French, 1812 – 1860) Artists: Bertall [ Bertal; Charles Albert d’Arnoux (French, 1820 – 1882) Jules [Jean-Baptiste] David (French, 1808–1892) Charles-François Pinot (French, 1817 – 1879) Eustache Lorsay [French, Eugène Lampsonius] (1822 – 1871) Pierre Édouard Frère (French, 1819 – 1886) Charles-Édouard de Beaumont (French, 1819 – 1888) Engravers Laisné Adèle / Aglaé / Alfred (French, fl. 1835 – 1868) Louis Dujardin (French, 1808 – 1859) François Rouget (Belgian, c. 1825 – ?) Janet-Lange [Ange-Louis Janet] (French, 1815 – 1872) Jacques Adrien Lavieille (French, 1818 – 1862) Timms (French, fl. c. 1839 – 1865) Félix Leblanc (French, 1823 – ?) Émile Montigneul (French, fl. 1840 – 1850) -
Hardbound, 25.3 x 22 cm, blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket lettered: HIROSHIGE | FAN PRINTS | RUPERT FAULKNER | {image} | VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM • FAR EASTERN SERIES ||; silver lettering to spine, green endpapers, description of 136 items with colour illustrations; pagination: [1-6] 7-160, ils. Utagawa Hiroshige [歌川 広重] a.k.a. Andō Hiroshige [安藤 広重] (Japanese, 1797 – 1858). -
Title-page: E. CRESSON |—| CENT JOURS DE SIÈGE | A LA | PRÉFECTURE DE POLICE | 2 NOVEMBRE 1870 — 11 FÉVRIER 1871 | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | LIBRAIRIE PLON | PLON-NOURRIT ET Cie, IMPRIMEURS-ÉDITEURS | RUE GARANCIÈRE, 8 | 1901 | Tous droits réservés || Description: 8vo, 22 x 14.5 cm, quarter brown calf over marbled boards, flat spine with gilt fillets, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers; inscriptions to t.p.: 2117 A | Ba V –1 1bis 3; ink stamps to t.p.: (1) « LÉGION DE LA GARDE REPUBLICAINE | BIBLIOTÈQUE | des Sous-Officiers | Brigadiers et Gardes | DE L’INFANTERIA | NAPOLEON » ; (2) « LÉGION DE LA GARDE REPUBLICAINE | BIBLIOTÈQUE | DE LA CASERNE | DU | PRINCE-EUGÈNE | (hand) XIII | XX—86 » Collation: 8vo; π6 1-248 252, total 200 leaves. Pagination: [2] [i-v] vi-x, [1] 2-385 [3], total 400 pages. BNF: ark:/12148/bpt6k4936n Author: Ernest Cresson (French, 1824 – 1902) -
Hardcover, 20.2 x 15.5 cm, owner’s half blue morocco binding over marbled boards with gilt lettering to spine, marbled endpapers, extracts from La Revue Blanche, numbers 91 and 92 of March 15 and April 1 of 1897 (année VII, tome XII), publisher’s pink wrappers preserved, pp. [2] [1-5] 6-160. Ref.: Bridget Alsdorf. Vallotton, Fénéon, and the Legacy of the Commune in Fin-de-siècle France. Portraits: François [Quico] Merlin Colonel Merlin (French, 1814 – 1900) Adolphe Thiers (French, 1797 – 1877) Commandant Gaveau Fortuné Henry (French, 1821 – 1882) Otto von Bismarck (German, 1815 – 1898) Henri, comte de Chambord (French, 1820 – 1883) Louis Rossel (French, 1844 – 1871) François Huet Tranquille (French, 1842 – after 1879) Joseph Vinoy (French, 1803 – 1880) Raoul Rigault (French, 1846 – 1871) Eugène Varlin (French, 1839 – 1871) Théophile Ferré (French, 1845 – 1871) Georges Darboy (French, 1813 – 1871) Auguste Vermorel (French, 1841 – 1871) Jaroslaw Dombrowski [Jarosław Dąbrowski] (Polish-French, 1836 – 1871) Contributors: Félix Fénéon (French, 1861 – 1944) Félix Vallotton (French, 1865 – 1925) La Revue Blanche (Paris) Imprimerie Alcan-Lévy -
Title: COSTUMES ET MODES | D’AUTREFOIS | HORACE VERNET | Incroyables | et | Merveilleuses | Paris | 1810–1818 | TEXTE PAR | ROGER–ARMAND WEIGERT | Conservateur au Cabinet des Estampes | de la Bibliothèque Nationale | ÉDITIONS ROMBALDI | PARIS || Content: 24 photomechanical reproductions of the images from Bibliothèque nationale de France, printed on vélin paper from Papeteries Aussedat by Papeteries de la Moselle printing presses and stencil-coloured by Edmond Vairel. Text printed by Imprimerie Kapp on October 20, 1955. A print run of 4,000 copies, of which this is №122. Exterior: Pink lettered dust jacket over wrappers. Pagination: loose double leaves, [4 blanks] [4 h.t. and t.p.], i-xi [xii], 24 unnumbered plates, [4 blanks].Weigert, Roger-Armand (French, 1907-1986).
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet [Horace Vernet] (French, 1789 – 1863). Gatine, Georges Jacques (French, 1773 – after 1841). -
Softcover, in pictorial wrappers, 28 x 21.8 cm, 60 entries, with colour illustrations, some folding. Catalogue # 19 of the sales exhibition on March 18-26, 2022 in NY; pagination: [1-3] 4-149 [3], ils., some folding. Contributor: Sebastian Izzard -
Description: Hardcover 26.5 x 19 cm, grey cloth, red lettering in kanji over black stripe to front, lettering to spine, tan endpapers, pictorial slipcase 27 x 19.5 cm; pp.: [1-6] 7-95 [96], pasted frontispiece and 79 colour illustrations with captions, within a collation. Series Masterworks of ukiyo-e, №8. ISBN: 9780870110986; 0870110985. Ref.: Worldcat Title-page (in frame): MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E | "THE DECADENTS” | by Jūzō Suzuki and Isaburō Oka | translation by John Bester | {publisher’s device} | KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL LTD. | Tokyo, Japan & Palo-Alto, Calif., U.S.A. || (Vertical text in kanji to the right, between rules). Artists: Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese [歌川 国貞], 1786 – 1865); Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese [歌川 国芳], 1798 – 1861); Keisai Eisen [Japanese [渓斎 英泉], 1790 – 1848). Contributors: Jūzō Suzuki [鈴木重三] (Japanese, 1919 – 2010) – author. Isaburō Oka [岡畏三郎] (Japanese, 1914 –2010) – author. John Bester (British, 1927 – 2010) – translator Kunisada's fan print in this collection (exactly the same copy) [SVJP-0380.2022]:
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Title page: GUIDE DE L’AMATEUR | BIBLIOGRAPHIE | DES | OUVRAGES ILLUSTRES | DU | XIXe SIÈCLE | PRINCIPALEMENT DES LIVRES A GRAVURES SUR BOIS | PAR | JULES BRIVOIS | AUTEUR DE LA BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE L’ŒUVRE DE P.-J. BÉRANGER | MEMBRE FONDATEUR DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES AMIS DES LIVRES | — | PARIS | LIBRAIRIE L. CONQUET | 5, RUE DROUOT, 5 | 1883 || Justification: Il a été tire : | 900 exemplaires sur papier vergé. | Et 50 exemplaires sur grand papier de Hollande. | Tous sont numérotés et paraphes par l’auteur. | № {188 signature} | Les numéros pairs portent le nom de M. L. Conquet. | Et les numéros impairs celui de M. P. Rouquette. | — | Le dépôt légal sera fait en France et dans tous les pays avec lesquels il | existe des conventions pour la propriété littéraire. | Tous droits réservés. || Pagination : [2] blank, [i-v] vi-xiii [xiv], [1] 2-468; the total number of pages = 484. Collation: π8 1-288 2910, an asterisk on leaf 295; the total number of leaves 242; 3 blank leaves of wove paper before and after collation. Imprint to 11 : Imp. de Mme de Lacombe; Imprint to 2910 : Nancy, imprimerie Berger-Levrault et Cie. Binding: ¾ polished distressed calf over marbled boards by the previous owner "E.D", gilt-stamped spine with gilt-lettered black label, peacock marbled endpapers, printed on laid paper. Contributors: Jules Brivois (French, 1832 – 1920) – author. L. Conquet (Paris) – publisher. P. Rouquette (Paris) – publisher. Berger-Levrault et Cie – printer. -
Description: One volume, collated 4to, 26.2 x 18.5 x 8 cm, ¾ calf over marbled boards, gilt decorated flat spine with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, publisher’s wrappers preserved. Title-page (red and black): LE TRÉSOR | DU | BIBLIOPHILE | ÉPOQUE ROMANTIQUE | 1801–1875 | PAR | L. CARTERET | Libraire de plusieurs Sociétés de Bibliophiles | LIVRES ILLUSTRÉS DU XIXe SIÈCLE | PARIS | L. CARTERET, ÉDITEUR | ANCIENNE LIBRAIRIE CONQUET | 5, RUE DROUOT, 5 | Novembre 1927 || Publisher's wrapper similar, in a frame Collation: front wrapper, π4 (2 blanks, h.t./limit., t.p./copyright], [1] – 894, χ2 (colophon, 1 blank), back wrapper, orig. spine, ils. within collation; total 362 leaves within wrappers; 2 leaves of modern inset bound-in between pp. 106 and 107. Pagination: [8][1-3] 4-712 [4], total 724 pages plus 4 pp inset, ils. Content: pp. 1-25 – propos; 29-600 – bibliographie; 601-603 – table ills; 605-639 – table des ouvrages cités; 641-712 – table des artistes. Printed by Imp. Lahure on November 30, 1927. Contributors: Léopold Carteret (French, 1873 – 1948) Imprimerie Générale de A. Lahure (Paris) Alexis Lahure (French, 1849 – 1928) -
Hardcover volume from the series Masterworks of ukiyo-e, 26.3 x 19 cm, bound in unprimed canvas, red characters on black strip to front, red and black lettering to spine, tan flat endpapers, in a pictorial slipcase with series design (black lettering on silver spine); pp: [1-6]: h.t./frontis. (colour plate pasted in), t.p./imprint, contents/acknowledgements), 7-67 text, 27-30 map, 31-32 f.t./blank, 33-96 (65 plates w/captions). Title-page (in frame): MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E | HIROSHIGE | FAMOUS VIEWS | by Muneshige Narazaki | English adaptation by Richard L. Gage | {publisher’s device} | KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL LTD. | Tokyo, Japan & Palo-Alto, Calif., U.S.A | {vertical, between rules in ms 広重]} || Series: Masterworks of ukiyo-e, № 5. Edition: 1st edition ©1968, 2nd printing 1970. Muneshige Narazaki [楢崎 宗重] (Japanese, 1904 – 2001) – author. Utagawa Hiroshige [歌川 広重] a.k.a. Andō Hiroshige [安藤 広重] (Japanese, 1797 – 1858) – artist. Richard L. Gage (American, b. 1934) – adaptation. -
Hardcover, 20.8 x 13.2 cm; publisher's original green cloth with black and gilt lettering to front and spine; pictorial endpapers. Gift ms inscription from Irina Komarova to Yury and Elvina Varshavsky to front free endpaper's verso: "Прослышав, что теперь для Юры / Нет ничего милей гравюры, / Литературу я отныне / Дарю из принципа Эльвине! / И. / Февраль 86". Pp.: [2] 3-477 [3], collation 16mo: 1-1516 (total 240 leaves) plus portrait frontispiece. Title-page: Джон Фаулз | ПОДРУГА | ФРАНЦУЗСКОГО | ЛЕЙТЕНАНТА | РОМАН | Перевод с английского | М. Беккер и И. Комаровой | под редакцией Н. Рахмановой | {vignette} | {publisher’s device} | ЛЕНИНГРАД | «ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА» | ЛЕНИНГРАДСКОЕ ОТДЕЛЕНИЕ• 1985 || T.p. verso: […] | JOHN FOWLES | THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN | Вступительная статья А. ДОЛИНИНА | Примечания М. БЕККЕР | Оформление художников | Н. ВАСИЛЬЕВА и Э. КАПЕЛЮША | […] || Contributors: Беккер, Мэри Иосифовна (Russian, 1920 – 2010) Комарова, Ирина Бенедиктовна (Russian, b. 1933) Рахманова, Наталия Леонидовна (Russian, b. 1930) -
Description: one volume in French flapped wrappers 25.3 x 19 cm, lettered “MUSSET” to front, 5 gatherings of 4 and one of 6 leaves, 26 leaves total, pp.: [4] [2] 3-43 [44] [4], total 52 pages, incl. those in wrappers, unbound; plus coloured and uncoloured suites of 12 lithographs, in a paper folder; in a cardboard tan slipcase 2.8 x 19.3 cm. Artist unknown, publisher unknown, published at the end of 1940s (per J.-P. Dutel). Illustrations are a loose interpretation of original lithographs by Devéria and Henri Grévedon or Octave Tassaert for the 1833 edition ((1926 re-print LIB-3135.2023). Limitation: Edition limited to 250 copies printed on Vélin Chiffon numbered 1 -250 and 24 copies marked by letters A to Z. This is copy № 246, with two suites of plates, one coloured and one b/w. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970) № 1657, p. 189. Alfred de Musset (French, 1810 – 1857) – author. -
Softcover, original wrappers, 16 x 11 cm, collated 8vo: 48, 54, total 36 leaves, pp.: [2] 3-71 [72]. Front wrapper (lettered in black and white): {photo} | Б. РЕСТ. | КНИГИ | И | ЛЮДИ | ГОСЛИТИЗДАТ || Title-page (black and red): Б. РЕСТ | КНИГИ И ЛЮДИ | ОЧЕРКИ ИЗ ИСТОРИИ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ | ПУБЛИЧНОЙ БИБЛИОТЕКИ | имени | М. Е. САЛТЫКОВА-ЩЕДРИНА | 1814 — 1939 | {vignette} | — | Государственное издательство | “ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА” | Ленинград 1939 || Print run: 7,500 copies. B. Rest [Б. Рест; Юлий Исаакович Шапиро] (Jewish-Russian, fl. 1940 – 1980).
