Paul et Virginie /

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.Vicaire, G. Livres du 19. s.,Mode of access: Internet.Binding c. 2: paper over boards; cloth spine; paper label with title on spine; Ulrich Middeldorf's label and Giovanni Parretti's signature in ink on front free endpapers.Binding c. 1: red grained publisher's cloth; half morocco; spine gilt tooled; marbled edges; bookplate of W. Ventz Hamburg and his signature in ink on front pastedown and front free endpaper; unidentified armorial bookplate on front free endpaper and bookplate of Oscar Ladner on verso; handwritten notes inserted.Library's c. 2 consists entirely of the plates listed under "Grandes vignettes" and "Gravures sur acier" (p. [15]-[16]. As in c. 1 they are mounted on blank leaves. All plates listed under "Gravures sur acier" except the portrait of Saint-Pierre and the plate titled "La carte de l'île de France" opposite p. 1 are wanting in Library's c. 1, while those appearing opposite p. 10, 14, 106 and 196 are wanting in library's c. 2.Library's c. 1 lacks half-title page and pp. liii-lvi