[Paris] : Editio[n] du Mercure de Fra[n]ce, xv, rue de l'Échaudé, MDCCCXCIV [1894]
Purchased for the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2019.
Printed on mauve paper.
Illustrations by the author: 7 prints : woodcut, monochrome ; full-page. Four are printed in dark bluish green, 2 in dark burgundy and 1 in black. Two additional full-page prints are reproductions of early woodcuts.
Visual typographic design on title page, with large letters "M" and "AR" in title and author and "D," "R," "E, " "X" and "V" in imprint representing letters in more than one word; "V" is doubly used as letter and number.
"Il a été tiré CXCVII exemplaires sur carré vergé d'Arches et XIX sur petit raisin Ingres vert, rouge et jaune."
Library's copy one of 19 on colored paper--"petit raisin Ingres rouge."
Printed by Charles Renaudie (his device, designed by Léon Bloy, reproduced in colophon).
[6], ix, [5]-210, [3] pages, [9] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15.5 x 12.2 cm
Inscribed by the author on recto of first ornamental leaf: Exemplaire offert à [Aurélien] Lugné-Poe, amicalement, Alfred Jarry.
Presentation inscription to Lugné-Poe; Collection Geneviève & Jean-Paul Kahn; their sale, Pierre Bergé, 7 November 2019, lot 26.
3/4 dark brown leather with marbled paper sides, spine lettered and stamped 1896 (sic) in gold, by Alfred Farez (his stamp); with original black wrappers decorated with gold escutcheon design bound in.