Paul et Virginie /
par J.-H. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.

Description

Main Author

Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737-1814.

Related Names

Curmer, L. (Henri Léon), 1801-1870, publisher.
Pigeot, François, engraver.
Cousin, Charles, 1807-1887, engraver.
Revel, Alfred, d. 1865, engraver.
Pelée, Pierre, 1801-1871, engraver.
Smith, Orrin, 1799-1843, engraver.
Lafitte, Louis, 1770-1828, artist.
Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 1804-1869.
Adolphe Everat et Cie

Language(s)

French

Published

Paris : L. Curmer, 25 Rue Sainte-Anne, 1838.

Subjects

Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, > Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, / 1737-1814 > Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, / 1737-1814 / Portraits.
Botany > Botany / Tropics.
Steel engravings > Steel engravings / France > Steel engravings / France / 19th century.
Wood engravings > Wood engravings / France > Wood engravings / France / 19th century.

Note

Originally issued in 30 (i.e. 29?) livraisons, 1836-1837. For full description cf. Vicaire, Manuel, t. 7, 1910, col. 42-68.
"Flore de Paul et Virginie et de La chaumière indienne"--p. [419]-458.
Separate t.p. (p. [317]): La chaumier̀e indienne, par J.-H. Bernardin de Saint Pierre. Vignette: medallion portraits of E. Meissonnier and Paul Huet.
Engraved portrait of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre after Lafitte facing the half-title (p. [vii]).
"Notice historique et littéraire sur J.-H. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre"--p. [vii]-lii, signed Saint-Beuve.
"Table des noms des dessinateurs et des graveurs," p. [5]-[16] at front. (In Vicaire this table of illustrations with the names of the artists follows the "Avant propos" and precedes the text) On the last page following the list of "Gravures sur acier" is a tail-piece engraved on wood: a medallion portrait of Orrin Smith, and beneath it the implements of the wood engraver.
Plates accompanied by captioned guard sheets printed in letterpress.
Wood engravings by Orrin Smith and others; steel engravings by Pelée, Revel, Pigeot, Cousin after Lafitte, Johannot and Meissonier.
Illustrated with 450 wood engraved vignettes, 30 wood engraved plates, and 7 steel engraved portraits.
Title vignette (medallion portraits of A. Everat and L. Curmer); initials, head and tail pieces.
Wood engraved frontispiece with title: Paul et Virginie et La chaumière indienne.

Physical Description

[16], [vii]-lvi, [2], 458, [2] p., [37] leaves of plates : ill., map, ports. ; 26 cm.

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