Title in blue and black.

Added t.p. has publisher's color-illustrated cartouche.

"Achevé d'imprimer par Kauffmann et Cie a Paris" -- P. [215].

Includes the preface to the third edition.

Illustrations and initials are hand colored.

LC copy is no. 147 of the limited edition, initialed by the publisher: F.F. Twenty-three plates bound in at end repeat illustrations in the text and are printed with remarques. Most of the remarques are the same small color illustrations that appear at the ends of chapters in the text. Bound in brown half-morocco over gold-flecked brown paper with raised bands and gilt on spine, upper edge gilt (a binding advertised by the publisher in "Justification du tirage," at end). Has binder's ink stamp on front flyleaf: Trinckvel. Original printed paper wrappers bound in. Purchased Sept. 2008.