"Tirage unique a 350 exemplaires sur papier Vélin de Rives, filigrané, dont 325 exemplaires numérotés de 1 a 325, et 25 numérotés de I a XXV non mis dans le commerce"--Page [2], 1st sequence.

Some plates are counted in pagination.

Comprised of portions of Madame et Monsieur Cardinal, and Les petites Cardinal.

Degas' only illustrations planned specifically for a book (The artist and the book, #71).

Rare Book copy: No. I, printed for Jacques André; original printed wrappers bound in.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: From the library of Jacques André, with his bookplate.

Rare Book copy: In contemporary French binding of full white goatskin, sewn on five recessed supports; upper and lower covers with an interlacing design tooled in gold and brown with crescent-shaped inlays of red leather (calf?); smooth spine with gilt lettering; inner joint of white goatskin; doublures of red suede; marbled free endpapers lined with red suede; all edges gilt; red and white silk endbands; signed "Georges Cretté at the tail end of the upper turn-in; housed in a half purple goatskin folder contained in a slipcase with decorated paper sides and tipped with purple goatskin.