Le Colonel Chabert
By: H. de Balzac
Contributors: Delort, Charles Edouard, 1841-1895, illustrator; Bligny, Albert, 1849-1908, artist; Kieffer, René, 1875-1963, binder; Librairie Auguste Blaizot; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Calmann Lévy
Published: 1886
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 174
Notes: "Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage 50 exemplaires sur papier du Japon, tous numérotés."--Half-title verso

Includes index

Engravings by Boisson after C. Delort

Rare Book copy: With 19 signed original watercolors by A. Bligny in the margins. Label of bookseller A. Blaizot of Paris on front flyleaf.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: Bound in full red leather; spine with five raised bands and gilt lettering; red leather joint; turn-ins and joints gilt with a frame of single and double line-fillets and corner ornaments; doublure of multi-colored silk brocade; marbled paper flyleaves lined with multi-colored silk brocade; board edges with a single-line fillet in blind; red ribbon marker; all edges gilt; original blue printed wrappers bound in; "René Kieffer" in gilt at foot of upper turn-in.