Lot n° 195
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LONGUS. Les Pastorales de Longus ou Daphnis et Chloé. Transl - Lot 195
LONGUS. Les Pastorales de Longus ou Daphnis et Chloé. Translation by Messire J. AMYOT. Paris, Ambroise Vollard, 1902.
In-4°, plum morocco, broad geometrical decoration with gilded fillets and mosaic red and green morocco listels on covers, smooth spine decorated with the same, gilded edges on witness, chocolate suede lining and endpapers, cover and spine preserved, half-plum morocco folder with small overlaps, case (Gras).
"Translation [...] revised, corrected, completed again, largely redone by Paul-Louis COURIER".
156 lithographs by Pierre BONNARD.
Edition of 250 copies, this one (no. 182), one of 200 on hollande van gelder.
Some foxing.
A VERY FINE COPY IN AN ORNATE, MOSAIC-EMBELLISHED MOROCCO BINDING BY MADELEINE GRAS.
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