LA SERVANTE by Geoffrey; Geo. Dupuis 1905 LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE ALBERT BÉLINAC #182
POB#56758
TITLE: La Servante
AUTHOR: Gustave Geoffrey; illustrations de Geo. Dupuis.
PUBLISHER: Paris: Librairie de la collection les Dix. A Romagnol, Ed.
DATE: [1905]
DESCRIPTION: 36 p., [54] leaves of plates : ill., port. ; 26 cm.
CONDITION NOTES: VERY GOOD. Superficial rubbing to joints and tips. Light spotting. No marks, creases, or tears.
BINDING: Full crushed red morocco with turned in edges and marbled endpapers. a.e.g. by E. Carayon.
LIMITATION PAGE: "Exemplaire Imprimé | pour | Monsieur Albert Bélinac | V" printed at tail of the limitation descriptions.
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PROVENANCE: "Exemplaire Imprimé | pour | Monsieur Albert Bélinac | V" printed at tail of the limitation descriptions. This special imprint (No. V) is also referenced in M. Albert Bélinac's estate sale auction catalog (First Part, Lot #182) which identifies this copy as 1 of 10. [Ref: Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu Mr Albert Bélinac Première partie. Très beaux livres modernes recouverts de superbes reliures d'art, etc., Paris, A. Durel, 1909. A scanned version of the catalog is available at HathiTrust website.] Art Historical reference: Ref: Talvart & Place. Auteurs modernes, VI.384
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EDITION and LIMITATION: 350 copies total of which 20 include three states of each woodcut by Dupuis. "Le Grand Format" [Note: Bélinac's estate sale auction catalog misstates the limitation as 10 copies*. According to the unsigned limitation page, "Le Grand Format" includes three states of each of the Dupuis wood cuts. According to the auction catalog, the plates are 1) "avent lettre", that is, in the text body of the book; 2) "avec lettre", that is, without the text, and bound as an unpaginated leaf at back; 3) "sur Japon pleura tirade à la main", that is, Japan onionskin hand pulled from press. Regarding #3, the Japan proofs are additionally reinforced by a blank backing leaf prior to binding, as are a few other leaves in the book.
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*[Note: M. Bélinac's estate sale auction catalog alternatively states the limitation as 10 copies. Since the catalog also identifies the "No. V" custom imprinted in M. Bélinac's copy, and correctly identifies the binder as Carayon and other details, we'll call it an error and not some other contemporary imprint]
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