Translation of: Dialogi meretricii.

"Illustré en hors-texte de vingt-deux gravures de reproduction sur cuivre exécutées par Maurice Potin ... d'après les compositions originales en noir et en couleurs d'Edgar Degas"--Colophon.

"Justification du tirage ... 1 à 305--Trois cent cinq exemplaires sur vélin de Rives, numérotés en chiffres arabes. Il a été tiré vingt exemplaires hors commerce marqués de A à T"--2nd prelim. page.

Rare Book copy: No. 137; original wrappers bound in.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: In contemporary French binding of full pink goatskin, sewn on five recessed supports; upper and lower covers gold- and blind-tooled with multi-colored onlaid strips running down the center of the covers; smooth spine with gilt lettering; inner joint of pink goatskin; gold-tooled turn-ins with onlays from the covers extending over to the turn-ins; doublures of maroon suede; free endpapers lined with maroon suede; all edges gilt; two-color silk endbands; signed "Georges Cretté at the tail end of the upper turn-in; housed in a quarter-leather folder contained in a leather-tipped slipcase with decorated paper sides.