... Paul et Virginie
By: Illustrations de Maurice Leloir
Contributors: Leloir, Maurice, 1853-1940, illustrator; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Launette
Published: 1887
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 208
Notes: At head of title: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.

"Il a été fait un tirage à cent exemplaires numérotés sur papier des Manufactures du Japon contenant une suite, tirée à part, de toutes les vignettes sur bois ... Nos. 1 à 50: Cinquante exemplaires avec quadruple suite des eaux-fortes et une aquarelle originale de Maurice Leloir. Nos. 51 à 100: Cinquante exemplaires avec une double suite des eaux-fortes."--Half-title verso.

From the Peter Marié collection, 1903.

Rare Book (Book Arts) copy: This copy for the publisher Henri Launette; with 12 etchings in 5 states (one on silk) and an original watercolor by Maurice Leloir inscribed to Henri Launette.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book (Book Arts) copy: Bound in full gray goatskin, sewn on five supports; upper and lower covers with gilt fillet borders and onlays in brown and green goatskin; spine with five raised bands, gilt in compartments, with brown leather onlays; board edges gilt with a double-line fillet; inner joint of gray goatskin; turn-ins gilt with a decorative roll; doublure of coral goatskin, with gilt fillet frames, and floral onlays in red and green; free marbled endpapers lined with blue silk; all edges gilt; ribbon marker; red, green, and yellow silk endbands; signed "Bretault" at tail end of upper turn-in; original silk and paper wrappers bound in.