| Curwen Press: | J13 |
| Curwen Press: | J13 |
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HONORÉ DE BALZAC [double rule] OLD GORIOT Translated from the French by ELLEN MARRIAGE with an introduction by FRANÇOIS MAURIAC and illustrations by RENÉ BEN SUSSAN [coloured line block in black red lime brown: a gentleman driving a gig] [double rule] New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1948
Text printed by Curwen, illustrations colour-stencilled in Paris.
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[to right and left of text a double rule, with flower at head and foot; text between as follows] Of this edition of OLD GORIOT fifteen hundred copies have been made for the members of The Limited Editions Club. The type arrangement is by Francis Meynell; the text has been set and printed at the Curwen Press in London; the illustrations have been printed by Georges Duval, and coloured in the Atelier Beaufumé in Paris. This is copy number [space for serial number] It is signed by the illustrator.
[A]8 C-X8.
[i-vi] vii-xv [xvi-xviii] 1-68 [69-70] 71-112 [113-4] 115-56 [157-8] 159-66 [167-8] 169-78 [179-80] 181-278 [279-80] 281-308 [309-10] 311-16 [+2].
10¾"×6¾", trimmed, artificial head- and tail-bands, pale grey wove, no mark; 14pt. Bembo; hand-coloured stencilled illustrations, whole-page and part-page, over a collotype key, done by Atelier Beaufumé; casing, blue cloth, spine white paper label, printed: ‘[within a border of double rules with flowers at corners] OLD GORIOT [flower] HONORÉ DE BALZAC’.
The Curwen Library copy is described above. Note the trimmed page size is larger than ZFha.
It is clear that the production of ZFh, as also of ZHi, was disrupted by the Second World War. A chronology can be built on Dreyfus 1981 cat.117a and other sources as follows:
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Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 2016
| British Library: | C.105.g.2 |
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HONORÉ DE BALZAC [double rule] OLD GORIOT Translated from the French by ELLEN MARRIAGE with an introduction by FRANÇOIS MAURIAC and illustrations by RENÉ BEN SUSSAN [coloured line block in black red brown: gentleman driving a gig] [double rule] New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1948
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As colophon of ZFh.
As ZFh.
As ZFh but: casing, black morocco, boards grey mauve-green marbled paper, gold-blocked with design, incorporating rectangular cartouche with lettering as ZFh in gold, slip-case covered in marbled paper. I believe this is of the same printing as ZFh but with more elaborate casing.
B.L. copy is not legal deposit, but is stamped 5/Apr/1952 in green as a donation, signed by Ben Sussan, numbered 'G.M.' over "out of series" embossed stamp of Limited Editions Club. B.L. Corporate Archive says the donor was George Macy. It is possible Macy believed that English law required deposit of 'the best edition'. See Carter 1961 p.69-70.
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| Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.: | PZ3.B22 Oj 1949 PQ2168 |
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Honoré de Balzac Old Goriot Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by François Mauriac and illustrations by René ben Sussan The Heritage Press, New York, & The Nonesuch Press, London
NOT YET VERIFIED, Description follows Dreyfus.
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As ZFh colophon.
As ZFh.
See Dreyfus 1981 cat 117a: Paging and trimmed page size are consonant with ZFh,ZFha, 9⅞"×6½", all edges trimmed, artificial head- and tail-bands, laid, printed from plates in America on laid paper, photogravure illustrations, hand-stencilled in colour printed by the Photogravure and Color Co., and colour applied through stencils cut by Herbert Rau, casing, spine quarter red buckram, gold-blocked across head: ‘Honoré de Balzac’, up spine: ‘Old Goriot’, across tail: ‘Nonesuch’, boards lithographed cloth with fleur de lys and cream check pattern, glassine dust-jacket, slip-case in dark red paper.
Note that no year of publication appears in the title-page transcript. Dreyfus puts '1949' in the publication data, 'apparently not published in England, unlimited, the 8th of the Ten Great French Romances', priced $5.00, it seems likely that plates from the original Curwen setting were shipped to New York to produce this Heritage Press edition. The task of 'reading' the illustrations and cutting stencils (Simon 1973 p.213) so as to apply colour and faithfully interpret the original artist's work was evidently done by Herbert Rau, but it is not clear whether he also applied the colour.
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