Les mondes imaginaires

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD 572
1. Bibliographic data
Author
Maurois, André, 1885-1967
Title
Les mondes imaginaires
Statement of responsibility
Par André Maurois
Place of publication
Paris
Publisher
Bernard Grasset
Collection
Not identified
Printer
Not identified
Date
1929
Imprint (isbd)
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1929
Language
French
Print run
This edition was issued in in-4º tellière format with 13 copies on papier Montval numbered from 1 to 10 and I à III; 81 copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma numbered from 1 to 75 and I à VI; as well as 370 copies on papier alfa Outhenin-Chalandre numbered from 1 à 350 and I à XX; the described copy shows no visible numbering in the supplied images
2. Physical description
Collation
249 pages
Illustrations
None
Format
19 cm; in-16 double couronne
Dimensions
19 cm
Typographic signatures
Not visible in the supplied images
Paper type
Good-quality interwar paper; edition partly printed on vélin pur fil Lafuma, Montval and alfa Outhenin-Chalandre paper according to the limitation leaf
Watermarks
No visible watermarks observed under transmitted light in the supplied images
Printing condition
French serif typography; clean and homogeneous printing
3. Binding
Binding type
Half-leather binding
Colours
Black and dark brown
Decoration
Spine with gilt tooling and gilt-stamped title; plain boards; decorated endpapers
Spine
Smooth black leather spine with gilt fillets and title “Les mondes imaginaires”
4. Content
Content description
Collection of literary narratives and recreations inspired by classical European literary works and characters, including reinterpretations of Goethe, Balzac and Bulwer-Lytton, centred on romantic imagination and psychological analysis
5. General notes
Note 1
French edition published by Bernard Grasset during the interwar period
Note 2
Includes extensive typographic limitation statement
Note 3
Contains printed dedication “In memoriam J.A.-M.”
Note 4
Period non-publisher binding
Note 5
Copy bearing the handwritten signature “Alfred Gallart”
Note 6
Preserves the original decorated endpapers
6. Subjects
Main subject
Twentieth-century French literature
Subtopics
Psychological fiction; literary reinterpretation; romanticism; Goethe; Balzac; Pompeii; French literary fiction
7. Copy record
Shelfmark
572
Condition
Good; solid binding; slight stains and scattered foxing on some leaves
Provenance
Biblioteca de Alfred Gallart i Genis
Copy notes
Complete copy; preserves limitation leaf and period binding; handwritten signature “Alfred Gallart” visible on endpaper