statement of responsibility: racontées par Paul Iribe

Illustrations: 11 photomechanical prints: reproduction of drawings, hand-colored (pochoir); chiefly full-page. Most signed in medium: Paul Iribe

"Achevé d'imprimer le XX octobre MDCCCCVIII ... par la Société générale d'impression"--Colophon

One of 250 copies printed

Bauman Rare Books; purchase; 04/2011; 500.00

Bauman Rare Books;

CHMRB copy 39088015653215 has a presentation inscription by Poiret on front free endpaper: "A Monsieur Max Meyer, un Américain bien pausière, qui aime et comprené touts les belles choses. Paul Poiret." (Former owner Max Meyer has been tentatively identified as an agent for the raw silk trade (Mitsui & Co.) who lived in Jersey City, NJ, and whose obituary appears in v. 33, p. 63 (1914) of the American silk journal)

CHMRB copy has Iribe's name scratched out in ms. ink on each plate. There is a small hole in the first two plates, slightly affecting the images; the bottom margin of the third plate has been cropped

CHMRB copy is unnumbered

CHMRB copy has the original red- and black-printed brown paperboard binding, with some repairs along the gutter; in a clear polyester sleeve for preservation

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