Description
DEFINITIVE EDITION.
A very rare copy on orange paper with a printed silk publisher's binding featuring the cover illustration.
According to Carteret, this definitive edition contains a few differences in Steinlen's drawings, some of which have been modified and others entirely new.
In addition to the ordinary edition on vellum, there is a numbered edition of 100 copies on Japon; there is also a copy, probably the only one, on red paper in the incomparable library of Henri Beraldi, fourth sale of Tuesday 18 June 1935, with no mention of a silk publisher's binding.
The present copy, unknown to bibliographers, is also undoubtedly unique.
References : Carteret
Vicaire details the differences with the original edition:
- modification of the drawings on pages 52, 53, 78, 118, 157, 160, 179 and 181,
- new drawings on first leaf, after title, drawing at top and bottom, vignette at head and end of table and pages 36,49, 57,58,69,84,120,128,139,140,171,182,183.
- In the definitive edition, the vignette on page 113 has been reduced and placed on page 114.
- In the first edition, the cover design was printed in bistre, flesh and blue; in the definitive edition, in black, flesh and blue.
The title of this last edition, which is similar to that of the first, also bears, in the lower left-hand corner: Edition définitive.
Bound in Bradel style.
Printed full silk using the cover of the paperback edition. Rubbing at head, paper fragile.