£1,350.00
Les Géorgiques de Virgile. Texte latin et version française de l’abbé Jacques Delille, gravures sur bois d’Aristide Maillol. Paris: Philippe Gonin., 1950. First edition. 2 vols (bound as one). 4to., (323 x 240 mm). With122 woodcuts by Aristide Maillol. Printed on special handmade paper with Maillol’s watermark of a seated nude.. Tirage à 750 ex. sur pur chanvre et lin à grandes fibres. Contemporary full morocco with a pattern of gilt leaves, titles to spine, hand painted paper end-papers repeated on the morocco edged slipcase, original wrappers bound in by Michel Kieffer, for René Kieffer, with their label. A little faded at spine, very light foxing to prelims, slipcase rubbed at edges. Very Good.
Book ID: 036623
