La famille Cardinal
By: Ludovic Halévy ; illustrée d'un portrait de l'auteur et de trente-trois monotypes en noir et en couleurs par Edgar Degas ; avant-propos de Marcel Guérin
Contributors: Degas, Edgar, 1834-1917, illustrator; Cretté, Georges, 1893- binder; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Auguste Blaizot & Fils
Published: 1939
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 161
Notes: "Tirage unique a 350 exemplaires sur papier Vélin de Rives, filigrané, dont 325 exemplaires numérotés de 1 a 325, et 25 numérotés de I a XXV non mis dans le commerce"--Page [2], 1st sequence.

Some plates are counted in pagination.

Comprised of portions of Madame et Monsieur Cardinal, and Les petites Cardinal.

Degas' only illustrations planned specifically for a book (The artist and the book, #71).

Rare Book copy: No. I, printed for Jacques André; original printed wrappers bound in.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: From the library of Jacques André, with his bookplate.

Rare Book copy: In contemporary French binding of full white goatskin, sewn on five recessed supports; upper and lower covers with an interlacing design tooled in gold and brown with crescent-shaped inlays of red leather (calf?); smooth spine with gilt lettering; inner joint of white goatskin; doublures of red suede; marbled free endpapers lined with red suede; all edges gilt; red and white silk endbands; signed "Georges Cretté at the tail end of the upper turn-in; housed in a half purple goatskin folder contained in a slipcase with decorated paper sides and tipped with purple goatskin.
Table of contents: title: Madame Cardinal; title: Monsieur Cardinal; title: Les petites Cardinal; title: Madame Canivet; title: Le programme de Monsieur Cardinal; title: Pauline Cardinal; title: Virginie Cardinal; title: Le feu d'artifice.