Les diaboliques
By: par J. Barbey D'Aurevilly ; compositions et gravure originale de Lobel-Riche
Contributors: Lobel-Riche, Alméry, 1880-1950, illustrator; A. Romagnol (Firm); Creuzevault, Henri, 1905-1971, binder; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: A. Romagnol
Published: 1913
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 322
Notes: "Librairie de la Collection des Dix."

Etched ill. by Lobel-Riche: Portrait, 9 head- and 7 tailpieces, and 20 plates.

Ed. of 300 numbered copies.

Bound in at end is a series of 3 unused plates, with sectional title page.

Rare Book copy: No. 285; original wrappers bound in.

Carteret, L. Trésor, 1875-1945, IV, 57

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: In 20th-century French binding of full black goatskin; upper and lower covers gold- and blind-tooled in a diamond design; spine with five raised bands that correspond to the five sewing supports, gilt in compartments; board edges gilt with a single-line fillet; doublures of black watered silk; inner joint of black goatskin; turn-ins and joints with gilt fillet borders; free endpapers lined with black watered silk; top edge gilt; red and black silk endbands, sewn with a front bead; ribbon marker; signed "Creuzevault" at tail end of upper turn-in; in a slipcase covered with decorated paper and tipped with black leather.