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Illustrated by: Walter Stein (American, 1924–1998)
Author: Jules Renard (French, 1864–1910)
Editor: Philip Hofer (American, 1898–1984)
Publisher: Harvard College Library
Printer: Meriden Gravure Company
Typesetting by: The Stinehour Press (American, 1952–2008)
Author: Jules Renard (French, 1864–1910)
Editor: Philip Hofer (American, 1898–1984)
Publisher: Harvard College Library
Printer: Meriden Gravure Company
Typesetting by: The Stinehour Press (American, 1952–2008)
1960
Place of Publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Medium/Technique
Illustrated book with 13 lithographs and 15 offset lithographs
Dimensions
Overall: 22.3 x 27.3 x 1.4 cm (8 3/4 x 10 3/4 x 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Eleanor A. Sayre
Accession Number1986.569
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsContemporary Art, Americas, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Cambridge: Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, 1960
Catalogue Raisonné
Artist & the Book 292
Description(Cambridge: Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library, 1960) 22.3 cm; [31 ff.]; publisher's original half gilt-stamped black calf, printed dark green paper boards (black and dark green paper slipcase).
Signed
Pen and blue ink on colophon page "Walter Stein"
InscriptionsPen and blue ink on colophon page "not for sale! For Eleanor A. Sayre / Philip Hofer / her ally!"
ProvenancePhilip Hofer [the publisher]; by 1984, given by Philip Hofer to Eleanor A. Sayre; 1986; gift of Eleanor A. Sayre to the MFA. (Accession date: October 22, 1986)