Nos. 1-24, Folio. 99 color lithographic and collotype plates by Alphonse Mucha, Louis Rhead, Henri Boutet, Edward Burne-Jones, Theophile Steinlen, Marcel-Lenoir and others, publisher's blind stamps in margins, nearly all with lettered tissue guards. (Lacking Prouvé’s Le baiser, and Willette’s Valmy, and with Ullmann’s Tristesse sur la mer in duplicate, lacking lettered tissue guards for 6 plates). Later half blue morocco gilt; one original wrapper bound into each volume.

FIRST EDITION, issued in 24 monthly parts between May 1897 and April 1899, with each part comprising four prints; an extra suite of lithographs ("planches de prime") were offered by the publisher as an incentive to potential subscribers.