Manon Lescaut / translated from the French of the Abbé Prévost by D.C. Moylan ; with eleven illustrations by Alastair ; and an introduction by Arthur Symons
London ; New York: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd. ; Dodd, Mead and Company, MCMXXVIII
Physical Description
xxxv, 196 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates : colour illustrations ; 33 cm.
General Note
The printers are named on the verso of the title page: `Made and printed in Great Britain. Text by Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk. Illustrations and End-papers by George Gibbons & Co., Leicester.’
Title page in red and black.
The 11 full-page colour lithograph illustrations with lettered tissue guards. Illustrated endpapers are also colour lithographs.
Contents
List of illustrations. The Young Lovers -- A Self-portrait -- Departure -- At the Play -- The Closed Gate -- The Passionate Embrace -- Chamber Music -- The Message -- Disagreement -- The Sad Journey -- The End
Copy Note
`This edition is limited to eighteen hundred and fifty numbered copies for sale in England and American, of which this No. 148.’ [colophon].
Binding Note
Blue cloth covered boards. Titled in red on upper cover and spine. Deckle-edged paper.