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

Abbé Prévost

RA Collection: Book

Record number

13/233

Author

Imprint

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.

Subject

Illustrated books
18th-century fiction

Contributors

Alastair, illustrator
Arthur Symons, contributor
John Lane, publisher
The Bodley Head, publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company, publisher
Richard Clay and Sons Limited, letterpress printer
George Gibbons & Co. (Leicester), lithographic printer