Petit index alphabétique
Short Alphabetical Index
Charles Péguy
FIRST CAHIER OF THE EIGHTH SERIES
Short alphabetical index of our earlier editions and of our first seven series (1900-1906). Very summary analytical table of our seventh series (1905-1906).
CAHIERS DE LA QUINZAINE, appearing sixteen times a year, PARIS, 8, rue de la Sorbonne, ground floor.
We published in our earlier editions and in our first five series, 1900-1904, such a great number of documents, of texts forming dossiers, of information and commentaries; such a great number of cahiers of letters — novels, dramas, dialogues, poems and tales; such a great number of cahiers of history and philosophy; and these documents, information, texts, dossiers and commentaries, these cahiers of letters, history and philosophy were so considerable that we cannot think of giving even the most succinct statement of them here; to know what has appeared in the first five series of the cahiers, one need only send a money order of five francs to M. Andre Bourgeois, administrator of the cahiers, 8, rue de la Sorbonne, ground floor, Paris, fifth arrondissement; in return one will receive the analytical summary catalogue, 1900-1904, of our first five series.
This catalogue was properly established to give, as far as possible, an image in brief, an abridgment, an idea, abbreviated but complete, of our earlier editions and our first five series; everything is classified there in order; one need only read it to find, in their place, the references requested.
This catalogue, in-18 grand jesus, forms a very thick cahier of XII+408 very dense pages, marked five francs; this cahier counted as the first cahier of the sixth series and our subscribers received it at its date, October 2, 1904, as the first cahier of the sixth series; any person who up to December 31, 1905 subscribed retroactively to the sixth series received it, by the very fact of their subscription, at the head of the series; we send it upon receipt of a money order of five francs to any person who requests it.
For the seventh series, working year 1905-1906, and while awaiting the publication of the analytical summary catalogue of our second five series, 1904-1909, one may consult — provisionally — the short very summary analytical table that we have established and that we publish at the end of the present cahier.
To begin any work that one might have to undertake in our first analytical summary catalogue, consult below the short provisional alphabetical index that we have automatically established of this analytical summary catalogue in the total index of our earlier editions and of our first seven series.
Thirteen copies of this cahier were printed on whatman paper, distributed as follows:
first stock copy, copy of the manager; second stock copy, copy of the administrator; third stock copy, copy of the printer; ten subscription copies, numbered from 1 to 10; subscription copies.
All our copies on whatman paper are numbered at the press and printed in the name of the subscriber; our printings of copies on whatman paper are rigorously limited to the number of subscriptions taken out at any given moment: we do not sell copies on whatman paper outside of the subscription: the subscription on whatman paper for this eighth series is one hundred francs for all countries.
The Cahiers de la Quinzaine are composed by hand, in late eighteenth-century characters (Didot) from the Mayeur foundry (Allainguillaume and company, successors), 21, rue du Montparnasse, Paris, sixth arrondissement.
The present short alphabetical index automatically provides:
a) for every author’s name, the name of the cahier;
b) for the name of the cahier, reciprocally, the name of the author, whenever the name of the cahier forms a sufficiently distinctive title;
c) for every author’s name or cahier name, that is to say for every cahier indicated: 1) the order number of this cahier in the general classification of our complete collections, the order number of the series being naturally composed in large roman capitals and the order number of the cahier itself, within the series thus determined, in Arabic numerals, so that V-17 for example must obviously be read as the seventeenth cahier of the fifth series; 2) the date of the press approval, or, failing that, the date of the completion of printing, or, failing that, the date of the cahier itself; 3) the current price; 4) where applicable, that is to say for our earlier editions and for our first five series, the page of the analytical summary catalogue where this cahier is catalogued.
[The alphabetical index of earlier editions and the first seven series follows, comprising bibliographic entries for all cahiers published from 1897 to 1906, arranged alphabetically by author and title.]
At the date of Sunday, October 7, 1906, when the present cahier went to press:
The first series of our cahiers, year 1900, of which we have been able to reconstitute some collections, sells for one hundred francs;
The second series, year 1900-1901, on the way to being out of print, sells for one hundred francs;
The third series, year 1901-1902, sells for thirty-five francs;
The fourth series, year 1902-1903, sells for thirty-five francs;
The fifth series, year 1903-1904, sells for forty-seven francs;
The sixth series, year 1904-1905, sells for seventy-three francs;
Until December 31, 1906, inclusive, and barring copies being out of print, a subscription to the seventh series, working year 1905-1906, sells for twenty francs;
Until December 31, 1907, inclusive, and barring copies being out of print, a subscription to the eighth series, year 1906-1907, sells for twenty francs.
CAHIERS DE LA QUINZAINE, 8, rue de la Sorbonne, ground floor, Paris, fifth arrondissement.
Our Cahiers are published by means of regular monthly subscriptions and extraordinary subscriptions; the subscription confers no authority over the editorial content nor over the administration; these functions remain free.
Our Cahiers appear in series; a series appears within the span of one school year, one working year, from October-November to June-July; the subscription is taken for one series.
One may take out this subscription at any moment of the year, but the subscription thus taken out is, by right, valid for the series in course.
Price of the subscription, for each annual series during the course of that series:
Ordinary subscription: Paris, departments, Alsace-Lorraine, Algeria, Tunisia — twenty francs. Other countries of the Universal Postal Union — twenty-five francs.
Subscription on whatman paper — one hundred francs for all countries.
Copies on whatman paper, limited printing, are numbered at the press and printed in the name of the subscriber; the special printing on whatman paper began to function on January 1, 1906; registrations for this particular subscription are received at all times and receive an order number determined automatically by the very rank they occupy in the order of arrival, the lowest numbers naturally going to the first registrations; it is this registration number that automatically becomes the printing number reserved for each subscriber; the edition on whatman paper is strictly limited to the number of copies subscribed at any given moment.
For any change of address, send sixty centimes, six ten-centime stamps.
We urge our subscribers in certain countries to request a registered subscription; all cahiers of the registered subscription are packaged separately and registered at the post office; postal registration, carrying a transmission of signature, guarantees the addressee against certain abuses; for this registration, for all countries, in addition, five francs.
Automatically and without increase in price, copies on whatman paper are all registered and sent to subscribers in envelope-bags.
The ordinary subscription ceases to function for each series at the latest on December 31 following the completion of that series; thus from October 1 to December 31, 1906, and barring copies being out of print, one may still obtain for twenty francs the nineteen cahiers of this complete seventh series.
Starting from the January 1 following the completion of a series, the price of that series is raised to at least the total of the marked prices; thus starting from January 1, 1907, the complete seventh series, if any copies remain at that date, will sell for forty-three francs.