• Cover:  (black and red in red frame) PARIS POLICE | par | Ch. Virmaitre | PARIS | E. DENTU, ÉDITEUR | LIBRAIRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES GENTES DE LETTRES | Palais-Royal, 15-17-19, Galerie d’Orléans | 1886 || Title page: CH. VIRMAITRE | PARIS–POLICE | {publisher’s device} | PARIS | E. DENTU, ÉDITEUR | LIBRAIRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DES GENTES DE LETTRES | PALAIS-ROYAL, 15-17-19, GALERIE D’ORLEANS | 1886 | Tous droits réservés. || Pagination : 3 blank leaves, original pictorial wrapper, [4], [1] 2-359 [360 blank], original back wrapper with publisher's advertisement, 3 blank leaves. Collation: 12mo; π2, 1-1912 206. Binding: owner's hardcover, quarter burgundy percaline, marbled boards, brown title label with gilt lettering, gilt double tail ruler, year, and fleuron to spine; original paper wrappers preserved.
  • Title: МИХАИЛ ПСЕЛЛ | ХРОНОГРАФИЯ |Перевод, статья и примечания | Я. Н. Любарского | КРАТКАЯ ИСТОРИЯ | Перевод | Д. А. Черноглазова и Д. Р. Абдрахмановой | «АЛЕТЕЙЯ» | Санкт-Петербург | 2003 || Series: Византийская библиотека. Источники. Pagination: [1-8] 9-396 [4], frontis. Binding: 21.5 x 15 cm; hardcover, crimson buckram, gilt lettering in the border, gilt serial device on black, map endpapers. Print run: 1,000 copies. ISBN: 5-89329-594-3. Михаи́л Пселл [Μιχαήλ Ψελλός; Michael Psellos] (Byzantine, 1018 – c. 1078). Любарский, Яков Николаевич (Russian, 1929 – 2003).
  • Норман Кон. Благословение на геноцид: Миф о всемирном заговоре евреев и "Протоколах сионских мудрецов" / пер. с англ. С. С. Бычкова, общ. ред. и послесл. Т. А. Карасовой и Д. А. Черняховского. — М.: Прогресс, 1990. Title page: НОРМАН КОН | БЛАГОСЛОВЕНИЕ | НА ГЕНОЦИД | Миф | о всемирном | заговоре евреев | и "Протоколах | сионских мудрецов" | Перевод с английского Бычкова С. С. | Общая редакция и послесловие | Карасовой Т. А. и Черняховского Д. А. | Москва | Прогресс | 1990 || Frontispiece: N. COHN. | Warrant | for Genocide | THE MYTH | OF THE JEWISH | WORLD-CONSPIRACY | AND THE PROTOCOLS | OF THE ELDERS OF ZION | Scholars Press 1981 || Pagination: [1-4] 5-245 [3]. Collation: 8vo; [1]8 2-168. Binding: Softcover, publisher’s wrappers, lettering to spine and covers. Print-run: 25,000 copies. Contributors: Norman Cohn (British, 1915 – 2007) – author. Татьяна Анисимовна Карасова (Russian, late 20th, early 21st century) – editor, afterword. Давид Абрамович Черняховский (Russian-Jewish, 1939 – 2000) – editor, afterword. Сергей Сергеевич Бычков (Russian, b. 1946) – translator. Original edition: Norman Cohn. Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. [LIB-1194.2014]
  • Title: REFLECTIONS | ON THE | REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, | AND ON THE | PROCEEDINGS IN CERTAIN SOCIETIES | IN LONDON | RELATIVE TO THAT EVENT. | IN A | LETTER | INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN SENT TO A GENTLEMAN | IN PARIS. | BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE | EDMUND BURKE. | — | {in lozenges} THE THIRD EDITION. | —| LONDON: | PRINTED FOR J. DODSLEY, IN PALL-MALL. | M.DCC.XC. || Pagination: [i-iii] iv, [1] 2-364, total 368 pages. Collation: 8vo; π2 B-Z8 Aa6 (plus one blank flyleaf in the front and one in the back), total 184 leaves. Binding: 23 x 14.5 cm, publisher’s paper-backed binding in blue boards with handwritten title to spine (illegible), laid paper, margins untrimmed. Housed in a modern brown cloth clamshell box with brown gilt-lettered label. Note: The second edition same year has a total of 360 pages (iv, 356); see LIB-2590.2021. Inscription to title page: Philip [ON THE] Williams Penpont – that is probably of Philip Williams Esq., of Penpont, Breconshire, Wales. (c. 1742 – 1794).
  • Title page: BOOKLEGGERS | AND | SMUTHOUNDS | THE TRADE IN EROTICA, 1920-1940 | JAY A. GERTZMAN | UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS • PHILADELPHIA || Pagination: [8] [1] 2-418 [6] blanks, total 216 leaves. Binding: 24.5 x 16 cm; black cloth, silver lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket.
  • Front wrapper and title page (in red and black): LES CONTES DE | CHARLES | PERRAULT | ILLUSTRATIONS | EN COULEURS | DE | BRUNELLESCHI | {vignette} | GIBERT JEUNE | LIBRAIRIE D'AMATEURS | 61, BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL, 61 | PARIS || Pagination: [2] – blanks, [2] – h.t. / limit., [2] – t.p. / blank, [4] – preface, [2] – d.t.p., 1-168 [169-70], [4] – table, [2] – imprint / blank; total 188 pages (94 leaves) with 55 in-text illustrations, plus 16 colour plates extraneous to collation, incl. frontispiece. Edition: Limited edition of 1,000 copies, this copy is № 1 (stamped in black). Printed on the 31st of October 1946 by J. Dumoulin (H. Barthélemy – director, Louis Malexis – mise en page); stencil-colouring (au pochoir) by E. Charpentier under direction of the artist. Binding: 26.7 x 20.3 cm, publisher’s flapped pictorial wrappers, vignettes and lettering to front wrapper and spine, publisher’s device to back wrapper, uncut. Fairy Tales by Charles Perrault (French, 1628 – 1703): Griselidis (Griselda) — Peau d'Asne (Donkeyskin) — Les Souhaits ridicules (The Ridiculous Wishes— La Belle au Bois dormant (Sleeping Beauty) — Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood) — La Barbe-Bleue (Bluebeard) — Le Maistre Chat ou Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots) — Les Fées (The Fairies) — Cendrillon ou La Petite Pantoufle de verre (Cinderella)— Riquet à la Houppe (Riquet with the Tuft) — Le Petit Poucet (Hop-o'-My-Thumb) Description of the stensil (au pochoir) technique.
  • Front wrapper: LES MŒURS DU SIECLE - № 1 | Les | six étages | par | GERARD BAUER | illustré de vingt gravures à l’eau-forte | par VERTÈS | {publisher’s device, “PARIS | 17, avenue de Friedland”} | ÉDITIONS DE L’ÉTOILE || Title-page: essais pour servir a1 l’histoire contemporaine | de la galanterie et du plaisir | I | Les six étages | par | GERARD BAUER | illustré de vingt gravures à l’eau-forte | par VERTÈS | | {publisher’s device, “ÉDITIONS DE L’ÉTOILE | 17, avenue de Friedland”} | PARIS […] MCMXXV || Pagination: front wrapper with lettering, [1-8] incl. 1st bank leaf, h.t. / limitation, t.p. / blank, dedication to Abel Hermant / blank, 9-169 [170] [6] incl. table, colophon, and last blank leaf, 17 etchings by Vertès within pagination; advert. of the other books of the series to the back wrapper. Edition: 15 copies on Japon Impérial (№ 1-15), 35 on Hollande Van Gelder Zonen (№ 16-50), 400 on Vélin de Rives BFK (№ 51-450) and 3 on blue paper not for sale. This copy is № 369. Printed on November 10, 1925 by L. Petitbarat in Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône (text) and by Vernant in Paris (etchings). Edition directed by Roger Allard. Binding: 19 x 12.5 cm, French flapped pink wrappers, lettered to front, back, and spine. Contributors: Gérard Bauër (French, 1888 – 1967) – author. Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist. Abel Hermant (French, 1862 – 1950) – dedicatee. Roger Allard (French, 1885 – 1961) – editor. L. Petitbarat (Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône) – printer. Éditions de l’Étoile (Paris) – publisher. Other names: Marcel Vertès, Marcel Vertes, Marcell Vértes
  • Two volumes, 16.6 x 11.4 cm each, uniformly bound in sprinkled calf, spine with raised bands, gilt in compartments, with crimson and black gilt lettered labels. Ink inscription to title page of vol. 1: “Thomas Fry. St: John's, Oxford.” Vol. 1: Collation: 4to; π22 a4 b3 A-Z4 2A-2E4 2F1, (total 124 leaves), plus frontispiece, 29 in-text vignettes. Pagination: [2] – h.t., [2] – t.p., [4] – preface, [i] ii-xiv – Vie de La Fontaine, [1] 2-224, [2] – table, (total 248 pages), ils. Vol. 2: Collation: 4to; π23 A-Z4 2A-2K4 2L3, (total 140 leavs), 40 in-text vignettes. Pagination: [2] – h.t., [2] – t.p., [6] – preface, [1] 2-268, [2] – table, (total 280 pages), ils. Illustrations: frontispiece by Lebas (signature erased), Vie de La Fontaine headpiece by Fessard after Cochin, 2 fleurons on two title pages, 69 vignettes by Chedel, Fessard, and Ravenet after Cochin (not signed). Catalogue raisonné: Lewine: 278; Cohen-deRicci: 557-8. Contributors: Charles-Nicolas Cochin (French, 1715 – 1790) – artist. Engravers: Pierre Quentin Chedel (French, 1705 – 1763). Étienne Fessard (French, 1714 – 1774). Simon François Ravenet (French, 1706 – 1764). Jacques-Philippe Le Bas [Lebas] (French, 1707 – 1783). Provenance: Thomas Fry (British, 1718 – 1772) – English priest and academic, president of St John's College, Oxford from 1757.
  • Description: Three volumes, 17 x 14 cm each, uniformly bound in quarter crimson morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands tooled gilt with gilt lettering and fleuron, marbled endpapers, publisher’s wrappers preserved (moire-waffle in light pink (vol. 1), cream (vol. 2) and blue (vol. 3), engraved), printed on wove paper, outer and bottom margin untrimmed, illustrated with etched/aquatint front wrapper, frontispiece, tail- and headpieces, and full-page plates in sepia, presumably after Zyg Brunner. Title-page (red and black): LE DIABLE | AU | CORPS | ŒUVRE POSTHUME | DU TRÈS RECOMMANDABLE DOCTEUR | CAZZONÉ | (ANDRÉA DE NERCIAT) | Membre extraordinaire de la joyeuse Faculté | phallo-coîro-pygo-glottonomique | TOME PREMIER (DEUXIÈME; TROISIÈME) | ALENÇON | 1930 || Vol. 1: front wrapper, blank leaf, h.t./limitation, t.p., [1] 2-180, 2 blank leaves, back wrapper; frontispiece, 7 full-page plates (incl. frontispiece), and 13 tail- and headpieces. Vol. 2: front wrapper, blank leaf, h.t./limitation, t.p., [1] 2-193 [194 blank], blank leaf, back wrapper; 8 full-page plates (incl. frontispiece), and 12 tail- and headpieces. Vol. 3: front wrapper, blank leaf, h.t./limitation, t.p., [1] 2-180 [181 colophon], [182 blank], blank leaf, back wrapper; frontispiece, 8 full-page plates (incl. frontispiece), and 13 tail- and headpieces. Limitation: 30 copies (№ 1-30) on Japon Impérial, 300 copies (№ 31-331) on Vélin d’Arches. This copy is № 109. Colophon: Printed on May 25, 1930, 350 copies on Vélin d’Arches with numbers from 31 to 380 [sic!] Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970) № 1394, p. 129. Contributors: André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat (French, 1739 – 1800) – author. Zyg [Zygismund; Sigismond Leopold] Brunner (Polish, 1878 – 1961) – artist.
  • One volume 23.5 x 16 x 6 cm, with glossy pictorial boards lettered to front, back and spine; pp.: [i-viii] ix-xlviii 1-766, total 407 leaves, with b/w illustrations. Title-page: Historical Dictionary of | Japanese Traditional Theatre | Second Edition | Samuel L. Leiter | ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD | Lanham • Boulder • New York • London || ISBN: 9781442239104. Author: Samuel L. Leiter (American, b. 1940)
  • Description: Hardcover, 20.5 x 16 cm, contemporary binding, ¾ calf with raised bands over marbled boards in a marbled slipcase, marbled endpapers, original wrappers preserved, t.e.g., gilt lettering to spine. Content: Scapin Maquereau, drame en un acte par M. Albert Glatigny; La grisette et l’étudiant, pièce en un acte par M. Henry Monnier; Le bout de l’an de la noce, parodie du bout de l’an de l’amour de M. Théodore Barrière par MM. Lemercier de Neuville et J. du Boys; Un caprice par Lemercier de Neuville; Les jeux de l’amour et du bazar, comédie de mœurs en un acte par Lemercier de Neuville. Title-page: LE THÉATRE ÉROTIQUE | DE LA RUE DE LA SANTE | {vignette} | PARIS | — | 1932 || Collation: 2 blanks, original front wrapper with blue lettering «LE THÉATRE ÉROTIQUE | DE LA RUE DE LA SANTE», [1]4 (2 blanks, frontis., h.t. / limitation), [2]4 (t.p., f.t.p., 2 leaves of text), 3-184 (incl. 2 blanks), original back wrapper, original spine, 2 blanks; 5 full-page illustrations within collation, 5 original drawings extraneous to collation. Pagination: [4] [1-8] 9-135 [136] [4], ils. Limitation: 20 copies on Japon and 250 copies on Vélin, this is copy № 12. Edition: 1st edition thus, illustrated with 20 stencil-coloured (au pochoir) photogravures, 5 of them full-page after Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan], enriched with 5 full-page original crayon drawings by the same artist. Provenance: Stamp with J.-P. Dutel device to 1st blank leaf. Catalogue raisonné: Dutel (1920-1970): 2498, p. 385; Nordmann/Christie’s (2) 515, p. 251 Contributors: Feodor Rojankovsky [Rojan, Фёдор Степанович Рожанковский] (Russian-American, 1891 – 1970) – artist. Joseph Albert Alexandre Glatigny (French, 1839 – 1873) – author. Henry-Bonaventure Monnier (French, 1799 – 1877) – author. Théodore Barrière (French, 1823 – 1877) – author. Louis Lemercier de Neuville [La Haudussière, Louis Lemercier] (French, 1830 – 1918) – author. Jean Charles Duboys [Du Boys] (French, 1836 – 1873) – author. Original crayon drawings by Rojan:
      Colour prints after Rojan's drawings:
  • DJ: Graham Greene | THE COMEDIANS || Title page: THE COMEDIANS | Graham Greene | {four lines citation from Thomas Hardy} | {publisher’s device} | THE BODLEY HEAD| LONDON || Edition: 1st edition, 1st printing. Binding: bound in green cloth, 20.5 x 13.5 cm, with gilt lettering to spine, in green pictorial dust jacket with white lettering, price clipped; gift autograph to fep: “To. | Richard | From: gig | Xmas 1964.” (sic., the book was published in 1966!) Pagination: [1-4] 5-313 [314 blank] [6] blanks (total 320 pages). Collation: 16mo; [A]4 B-K16 L12 (total 160 leaves).
  • Unbound volume in publisher’s wrappers, lettered in red “FELICIA | ou | mes fredaines”, in 29.7 x 23.6 cm purple and blue diaper cloth double-slipcase with a lettered label, 52 leaves folded in half, first and last blank leaves within the wrappers, pagination: [8] 1-186 [2] [4] (200 pages total); illustrated with 20 coloured etchings after watercolours by Louis Icart (signed), plates within collation, 8 b/w tail-pieces and coloured initials; the edition enriched with an original watercolour, an etched copperplate, and two suites of plates, one in black and one in sanguine. Edition printed on thick wove paper, margins untrimmed. Title-page (purple and black): ANDRÉA DE NERCIAT | Félicia | ou | Mes fredaines | ILLUSTRÉ | DE VINGT EAUX-FORTES ORIGINALES EN COULEURS | PAR | LOUIS ICART | GEORGES GUILLOT, ÉDITEUR | 7, RUE PERRONET | PARIS || Limitation: a print run of 500 copies numbered 1 to 500 plus 30 copies “exemplaires d’artiste, numbered I to XXX, of which this is number I. Catalogue raisonné:William R. Holland (1998): pp. 152-164. Ref.: [LIB-2785.2021] William R. Holland. Louis Icart: Erotica (A Schiffer book for collectors). — Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., © 1998. Printed by Joseph Zichieri (text) and Manuel Robbe (etchings). Contributors: André-Robert Andréa de Nerciat (French, 1739 – 1800) – author. Louis Icart (French, 1888 – 1950) – artist. Solange et Georges Guillot, éditeurs – publisher (7, rue Perronet, Paris) Joseph Zichieri (Grench, mid-20th century) – printer. Ateliers en taille-douce de Manuel Robbe (French, 1872 – 1936) – engraver/printer. Watercolour: Copperplate:
  • A double slipcase ‘box set’ of five volumes, 25.2 x 19.8 x 10.7 cm, lettered to spine: ŒUVRES CHOISIES | DE | PIERRE LOUŸS |★| APHRODITE | Illustrations de | J. A. CANTE |★| LES CHANSONS | DE BILITIS | Illustrations de | LOUIS ICART |★| LA FEMME | ET LE PANTIN | Illustrations de | J. TRAYNIER |★| LES AVENTURES DU ROI PAUSOLE | Illustrations de | BEUVILLE |★| Poëmes | Illustrations de | BERTHOMMÉ SAINT-ANDRÉ |★| VÉLIN || ; all uniformly bound in French flapped wrappers with colour vignettes and lettering to front and spine, printed on wove paper (Vélin) in Paris by Imprimerie Union and hand-coloured by Établissements Bellarde. Edition limited to 20 copies on Vélin d’Arches; 60 copies on Pur Fil du Marais, 150 copies on Pur Fil Lafuma, and 1500 copies on Vélin. This set is copy № 1467 on Vélin. 1) PIERRE LOUŸS | APHRODITE | MŒURS ANTIQUES |★| ILLUSTRATIONS EN COULEURS DE | J. A. CANTE | {vignette} | ÉDITIONS | ALBIN MICHEL | PARIS ||; pp: [i-xi] xii-xiv [xv-xviii] 19-245 [11] ; total 256 pages (128 leaves) with 5 headpieces and 8 in-text illustrations plus 8 full-page plates after J. A. Cante (French, fl. c. 1947 – 1962); partially uncut. 2) PIERRE LOUŸS | Les Chansons | de Bilitis | TRADUITES DU GREC | ILLUSTRATIONS EN COULEURS DE | LOUIS ICART | {vignette} | ÉDITIONS | ALBIN MICHEL | PARIS ||; pp: [i-x] xi-xix [xx] [2] 3-190 [6] ; total 216 pages (108 leaves) with 13 headpieces, one tailpiece plus 8 leaves of plates incl. frontispiece after Louis Icart (French, 1888 – 1950); partially uncut. 3) PIERRE LOUŸS | LA FEMME | ET LE PANTIN | Roman Espagnol | ILLUSTRATIONS EN COULEURS DE | J. TRAYNIER | {vignette} | ÉDITIONS | ALBIN MICHEL | PARIS ||; pp: [1-14] 15-144 [8] ; total 152 pages (76 leaves) with 5 headpieces, 6 in-text illustrations plus 8 leaves of plates incl. frontispiece after Jean Traynier (French, fl. c. 1942 – 1954); partially uncut. 4) PIERRE LOUŸS | Les Aventures | du | ROI PAUSOLE | ILLUSTRATIONS EN COULEURS DE | BEUVILLE | {vignette} | ÉDITIONS | ALBIN MICHEL | PARIS ||; pp: [1-12] 13-252 [4]; total 256 pages (128 leaves) with 4 section vignettes, 4 headpieces plus 12 leaves of plates after Georges Beuville (French, 1902 – 1982); partially uncut. 5) PIERRE LOUŸS | POËMES | ASTARTE • IRIS • AQUARELLES PASSIONNÉERS | HIVERNALES • LA FORÊT DES NYMPHES • STANCES | DERNIERS VERS • POËMES DIVERS | FRAGMENTS | ILLUSTRATIONS EN COULEURS DE | BERTHOMMÉ SAINT-ANDRÉ | {vignette} | ÉDITIONS | ALBIN MICHEL | PARIS ||; pp: [1-8] 9-241 [242] [6]; total 248 pages (124 leaves) with 11 headpieces plus 8 leaves of plates after Louis Berthomme Saint-André (French, 1905 – 1977); partially uncut. Author: Pierre Louÿs (French, 1870 – 1925).  
  • Softcover volume, 17.5 x 11 cm, in-12, brown wrappers without lettering, text printed on laid paper, six plates on India paper barbarously glued in, pp.: fep, [4] (h.t. t.p.), [1-3] 4-182, fep. Title-page (red and black): L’ENFANT | DU | BORDEL | OU | LES AVENTURES DE CHÉRUBIN | – | NOUVELLE ÉDITION | ORNÉE DE SIX GRAVURES SUR ACIER | {fleuron} | Sur l’imprimé de Paris MDCCC | LE MANS | A L’ENSEIGNE DES CITOYENS DU MAINE || Catalogue raisonné: Dutel I: A-325; Pia 395: 222 pages (we have 182 as per Dutel), attributes publication to Poulet-Malassis, 1866. Catalogue Poulet-Malassis & ses amis description: № 82.[PIGAULT-LEBRUN]. L’Enfant du Bordel, ou Les Aventures de Chérubin, nouvelle édition, ornée de six gravures sur acier. Sur l’imprimé de Paris, MDCCC, Le Mans, à l’enseigne des citoyens du Maine. [A. Christiaens, 1875 ?]. In-12, broché. 2 .n.ch., 182 pages, 1 f. blanc, couverture muette en papier vieux orange. Illustré de 6 figures hors-texte sur acier. Bibliographie : G* 553 (40 frs), Dutel A-325. Contributors: Guillaume Charles Antoine Pigault de l'Espinoy [Pigault-Lebrun] (French, 1753 – 1835) – author. Alexis Christiaens (Belgian, d. 1880) – publisher.
  • Hardcover volume, 18 x 13 cm, bound in purple cloth with stamped design to boards and spine, lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket, pictorial endpapers, pp.: [1-9] 10-491 [5], collated in 8vo: [1]-[31]8, 248 leaves (496 pages); covers, endpapers, DJ, head- and tailpieces, vignettes on the frontispiece, title-page, and faux-titles after Dmitry Mitrohin; text in Russian. Frontispiece (black and grey): СОКРОВИЩА | МИРОВОЙ | ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | ГЕЛИОДОР | ЭФИОПИКА | {vignette} | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА   ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1932 || Title-page: ГЕЛИОДОР | ЭФИОПИКА | ВСТУПИТЕЛЬНАЯ | СТАТЬЯ | РЕДАКЦИЯ | ПЕРЕВОДА | И | ПРИМЕЧАНИЯ | А. ЕГУНОВА | {vignette} | ACADEMIA | МОСКВА   ЛЕНИНГРАД | 1932 || Title verso: ΗΛΙΟΔΩΡΟΥ | ΑΙΘΙΟΠΙΚΩΝ | ΒΙΒΛΙΑ | ΔΕΚΑ | Орнаментация книги | Д. И. Митрохина || Contributors: Heliodorus Emesenus [Ηλιόδωρος ο Εμεσηνός] (Greek, 3-4 century AD) – author. Андрей Николаевич Егунов (Russian, 1895 – 1968) – editor, author. Дмитрий Исидорович Митрохин [Dmitry Mitrohin] (Russian, 1883 – 1973) – artist. For French translation, see LIB-3027.2022.
  • Softcover volume, 24.0 x 17.7 cm, publisher’s tan wrappers, lettered to front and spine in brown and black, publisher’s device and imprint to back, upper margin trimmed, all printed on laid paper, pp: [i-viii] [1-3] 4-496 [4], last page blank (total 508 pages); collated 8vo: π4 1-318 χ2 (total 254 leaves). Book-label with publisher’s device to fep (χ1 recto). Title-page and front wrapper (in brown and black): С. Ф. ЛИБРОВИЧЪ | НА КНИЖНОМЪ ПОСТУ | ВОСПОМИНАНIЯ | : : ЗАПИСКИ : : | ДОКУМЕНТЫ | {two-headed eagle} | ИЗДАНIЕ | Т-ВА М. О. ВОЛЬФЪ | ПЕТРОГРАДЪ И МОСКВА | (1916 on front wrapper) || Provenance: Publisher Contributors: Сигизмунд Феликсович Либрович [Zygmunt Librowicz] (Polish-Russian, 1855 – 1918) – author. Товарищество М. О. Вольф (Петроград-Москва) – publisher. Типография товарищества М. О. Вольф (Петроград) – printer. Маврикий Осипович Вольф [Maurycy Bolesław Wolff] (Polish-Russian, 1825 – 1883) – dedicatee.
  • Small volume, 17.2 x 13.2 cm, brown buckram with vignette and lettering to front and spine, pp.: [1-4] 5-315 [5], illustrations: portrait, frontispiece, and two vignettes by I. Gavriliuk; text on Ukrainian and Russian. A reprint of the 1874 edition. Contents: Дев’ять братiв i десята сестриця Галя, Невiльничка, Ведмiдь, Кармелюк, Совершенная курица, Королевна Я, Затейник, Похождения домашнего учителя, Воришка, Чортова пригода. Title-page: Марко Вовчок | Сказки и быль | {vignette} | КИЕВ | ИЗДАТЕЛЬСТВО | ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ | «ДНIПРО» | 1988 || Print run: 250,000 copies. Contributors: Марко Вовчок [Marko Vovchok; Марія Олександрівна Вілінська] (Ukrainian, 1833 – 1907) – author. Other variants: Markowovzok and Marko Vovtchok. Іван Михайлович Гаврилюк (Иван Михайлович Гаврилюк) (Ukrainian, 1939 – 2008) – artist.