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1937017038London: A Zwemmer 1937. First Thus. . Hardcover. Good. First thus limited edition this being no 54 of 250 full vellum with simple gilt titling to spine laced-in ties to joints. Printed on hand-made paper "manufactured by an old process rediscovered by Aristide Maillol". Simple stiff card slipcase. 20.5 13.5cm vi 211p 1 collophon. This copy has been signed by Aristide Maillol to the limitation page. Additionally this copy belonged to Belgian artist and writer E L T Mesens and given to him by Anton Zwemmer with a warm personal inscription to the ffep "Pour mon vieux copain Edward Mesens en toute sympathie A Zwemmer May 28 1946". In 1937 Zwemmer and Roland Penrose bought the London Gallery and Mesens was appointed the gallery's director. Under Mesens' directorship and with Zwemmer's financial backing it became the centrepoint for Surrealism in England with exhibitions of Joan Miro and Picasso both in the gallery and in Zwemmer's shop. A Greek pastoral poem ascribed to Sophist Longus 4th or 5th century AD which tells the story of the tender love of Daphnis and Chloe the children of a goatherd and a shepherd. This being the George Thornley translation of 1657. This copy with 52 illustrations by Maillol title page vignette fifty within the text and one to the collophon printed by Philippe Gonin of Paris. Condition: There is surface fading to the upper board's vellum but otherwise this copy remains in very good solid condition. The pages are clean and the inner binding is secure. The slipcase has slightly dusty edges but is in solid shape. <br/> <br/> A Zwemmer hardcover
19371720691937. MAILLOL Aristide. Les Pastorales de Daphnis and Chloe. By Longus. With 52 woodcuts by Aristide Maillol. Two volumes. 8vo. original illustrated wrappers and publisher's vellum-backed slipcases. Paris: Gonin 1937. A unique copy of the most beloved of all Maillol's books. This is the publisher's copy accompanied by 6 autograph letters from Maillol to the publisher discussin varuious aspects of the making of the book. As with all his books Maillol was closely involved in all aspects of production and the result is an extremely pleasing work "perhaps the most harmonious of Maillol's illustrated books" Garvey. This is copy number 1 of 25 hors commerce copies on large paper containing a double suite of the plates one in black and white and one in sanguine. It is also accompanied by a somewhat foxed example of the wedding invitation which Maillol printed for Gonin and a letter from Gonin to the original purchaser of this copy. Signed by Maillol on the colophon. The Artist and the Book 174. hardcover
2009Q-0856685631Liverpool University Press 2009-08-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Liverpool University Press paperback
1994Q-3791313738Prestel Pub 1994-05-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Prestel Pub paperback
2009SKU0586621Oxford University Press 2009-10-04. paperback. Good. 7x0x5. Textbook May Have Highlights Notes and/or Underlining BOOK ONLY-NO ACCESS CODE NO CD Ships with Tracking Oxford University Press paperback
2009SKU0634128Oxford University Press 2009-10-04. paperback. New. 7x0x5. New Textbook Ships with Tracking Oxford University Press paperback
2009Q-0199554951Oxford University Press 2009-10-04. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Oxford University Press paperback
1989Q-0140440593Penguin Classics 1989-06-06. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Penguin Classics paperback
1937353London: A. Zwemmer printed in Paris by Philippe Gonin 1937. Limited Edition. Fine. Aristide Maillol 1861-1944. 8vo 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. 200 x 132 mm; pp. 6 blank vi 211 colophon 12 blank; Copy 21 of 250 numbered copies on hand-made Maillol paper and SIGNED BY THE ARTIST on the colophon with 52 original woodcuts and 4 woodcut initials printed in bistre; leading and bottom edges deckle. Full vellum with laced-in thongs gilt lettering on spine faint; pencil notations and tipped in label from earlier booksellers on inside front cover edges stained on first 2 and last 2 blanks. <br /> EXTRA SUITE of 45 WOODCUTS in a separate vellum portfolio printed in black. <br /> Fine copy in simple cardboard slipcase.<br /> <br /> Colophon: "Aristide Maillol engraved with his own hand the wood-cuts which illustrate this book The text is that of Thronley's translation of 1657 revised and augmented. Philippe Gonin of Paris undertook the achievement of this work and printed it on his hand-press for A. Zwemmer London. Paris December 7th 1937" followed by MAILLOL'S SIGNATURE IN PENCIL. <br /> <br /> Garvey 174; Garvey Wick 22; BNF32393010. According to Eleanor Garvey "The Artist and the Book" p. 122 this work is "perhaps the most harmonious of Maillol's illustrated books."<br /> An ancient Greek novel written during the Roman Empire the only known work of the 2nd century CE Greek novelist and romance writer Longus translated by George Thornley in 1657 the story of Daphnis and Chloe inspired the French-Catalan sculptor Aristide Maillol 1861-1944 to create an extensive set of sometimes mischievous woodcuts of nymphs and lovers using the same classical lines that typify his sculpture. The format of the book is particularly suited "to the black and white balance of the decorated page" François Chapon. The images the luscious hand-made paper the sensual tone of the engravings all contribute to this piquant book meant to educate and titillate the "young beauties" to whom the book is dedicated. The Epistle Dedicatory reads "To Young Beauties". "The ceremonies customes & manners of the ancient Greekes; with delightfull interspersion of their old and sweet Tales: And in short; nothing to vex you unless perchance in your own conscience. A. Zwemmer [printed in Paris by Philippe Gonin] unknown
mon0000153746Librairie H. Launette & Cie. leather_bound. Acceptable. in x in x in. Limited edition: #239 of 500. Internal contents are Very Good VG with crisp text and clean plates. Bound in original vellum gilt; binding condition is Poor to Fair with typical vellum aging/wear. Librairie H. Launette & Cie. hardcover
Inspired by a journey through Greece, Marc Chagall, one of this century's most popular painters, created a wonderful series of lithographs that brought new life to this ancient Greek love story -- the first pastoral romance. "'Touching yet humorous, naive and at the same time highly sophisticated, Daphnis and Chloe is the story of a shepherd boy and girl who fall desperately in love yet find themselves facing great obstacles, because in their passion they behave, as the author says, even more awkwardly 'than rams and ewes.'" Translated by Paul Turner. 150p. Illustrated with forty-two full color illustrations based on the original lithographs. 150 pages. New copy still in shrink wrapping. Book
18961912Paris: Societe Des Beaux Arts 1896. First edition. First edition. Limited to 20 Copies 9 for America. This one lettered "B." Large thick quarto. Superb dark green morocco with ornate inlaid morocco decorative covers heavily gilt front and back covers as well as spine. Large ornately gilt inner dentelles with inlaid color oval illustrations matching image on preliminary pages four separate pages one color three tinted; 166pp with superb engravings throughout many whole-page some in tint by Raphael Collin. Printed on thick Japan Vellum with tissue guards throughout. Binding in near fine condition except for the joints at the spine which are worn due to large weight of covers. The front cover quite weakened. In need of small repair to make this a highly desirable item. <br/><br/> Societe Des Beaux Arts hardcover books
1977biblio 7530594736<p>Dafhnis and Chloe by Longus. Braziller 1977. Translate by George Moore. Illustrated by Chagall with 42 plates in color of which several in double page reproducing Chagall's original limited edition of 1961. A fine copy in pictorical dust jacket in fine condition complete of slipcase.</p> George Braziller hardcover books
194947921Pantheon 1949. Maillol Aristide. 8vo pp. 175. With woodcuts by Aristide Maillol. Rust cloth. Edges little spotted cover somewhat faded owner's name and address on flyleaf o/w a VG tight copy. Pantheon unknown books
19496846New York: Pantheon 1949. First trade edition 8vo 174-175pp. illustrations from woodcuts throughout the text by Aristide Maillol. Fine copy in a slightly chipped jacket. <br/><br/> Pantheon unknown books
1977292470New York: Braziller 1977. hardcover. fine/fine. Chagall. Translated by George Moore. With 58 full-page single-sided color illustrations by Marc Chagall. 222 pages. Small folio natural cloth d.w. slipcase. New York: George Braziller 1977. Fine in fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Reprint of the illustrations published by Verve in 1961 here integrated with the text in George Moore's translation.<br/><br/> Braziller unknown books
19722204168Imprint Society 1972. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Hoffmann Felix. Limited edition #813 of 1950 copies. Hand-numbered in black ink and signed by illustrator in pencil on limitation page. Lacks slipcase. Boards slightly bowed light stain to marginal corner of frontispiece does not affect image. 1972 Hard Cover. 152 pp. 8vo. Turquoise leather spine over paper-covered boards gilt titles. Designed and produced in Switzerland by Max Caflisch printed on Zerkall laid paper. Includes seventeen aquatints created by Felix Hoffmann specially for this edition. Translated from the original Greek by Christopher Collins. The only known work of the 2nd century AD Greek novelist and romancer Longus. A tender novel describing eager and inept young love Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately two years apart alone and exposed on a Greek mountainside. Taken in by a goatherd and a shepherd respectively and raised near the town of Mytilene they grow to maturity unaware of one another's existence until the mischievous god of love Eros creates in them a sudden overpowering desire for one another. A masterpiece among early Greek romances attracting both high praise and moral disapproval this work has proved an enduringly fertile source of inspiration for musicians writers and artists from Henry Fielding to Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Maurice Ravel. Longus transforms familiar themes from the romance genre including pirates dreams and the supernatural into a virtuoso love story that is rich in insight humorous and ironical in its treatment of human sexual experience. Imprint Society hardcover books
1885WRCLIT53515London: Vizetelly & Co. 1885. Large octavo. Brick-orange cloth decorated in gilt. Plates and decorations. A few hand smudges to cloth but a very good bright copy. First Vizetelly edition ordinary issue reprinting the translation from the Greek by C.V. Le Grice first published in 1803. The plates are full page copperplate engravings from designs by Eisen Gerard and Prudhon originally published by Didot in 1800 and the head and tailpieces are reproductions of designs by Philip of Orleans for an edition of 1718. There were also copies on handmade paper with plates in two states. Vizetelly & Co. hardcover books
1949D7129New York: Pantheon 1949. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Red cloth lettered in black on spine blindstamped illustration on front board; illustrated dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 175 with woodcut illustrations by Maillol throughout. Discreet previous ownership signature on FFEP otherwise book is fine. Small scuff mark on front panel of dust jacket; spine tips very lightly chipped; price-clipped; VG presents nicely in mylar. A clean bright copy. <br/><br/> Pantheon hardcover books
1934002243France 1934. First Edition presumed. Wraps made of 18th Century French Vellum Documents. Near Fine. No text with fifteen color lithographed plates of a softcore sensibility with nudity. The only words in the story proper is the title rendered in Cyrillic. The illustrations are far from lewd yet do have a delicious kitschy quality of the second-rate book illustration and they were in their time meant to give the viewer a frisson of excitement from partaking of something mildly naughty and taboo. The illustrations feel anachronistic fitting more squarely in the twentieth century than the classical world being portrayed but perhaps that is also their charm. No one could find the illustrations pretentious or overblown and if nothing else they do capture a simplicity and innocence that are at the core of the tale. Perhaps the most special aspect of the booklet is the wraps or outer wraps to be precise made up of two sheets of vellum documents from the mid-18th century that may have come from a Royal Archive. These sheets were clearly meant to conceal the erotic contents. One of the documents is signed Besnard P and is a letter dated 25 9bre 1734 with a seal of the city of Rouen. Back to the Daphis and Chloe a few of the plates bear a stylized device of what appears to be "LG" and above the date of 1934. <br/><br/> hardcover books
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, page-edges very lightly browned, small blind stamp on half-title; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. First appearance in Rieu's renowned 'Penguin Classics' series, and first publication of Turner's translation. The cover roundel is by John Diebel. Penguin Classics, L59.
32774London: Vizetelly & Co. J. Miller and Sons Printers Edinburgh n.d. Extensively illustrated. 9 full-page engravings in two states one blue after designs by Prudhon Baron Gerard and Philippe D'Orleans frontispiece after P. Thomas portrait by Darval after Masson and Rouen title-page by P. Dien of Paris printed in blue many of vignettes and tail-pieces in two states with second state printed in blue several after Charles Eisen blue state generally on china. xi 155 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Olive green morocco by M. Ritter Rel. with repeating floral diaper pattern of stylized flowers within gilt borders turn-ins elaborately tooled with silk doublures and free endpapers in ribbon pattern. Upper joint skilfully restored some darkening of green head of spine gently bumped else a very good copy. Extensively illustrated. 9 full-page engravings in two states one blue after designs by Prudhon Baron Gerard and Philippe D'Orleans frontispiece after P. Thomas portrait by Darval after Masson and Rouen title-page by P. Dien of Paris printed in blue many of vignettes and tail-pieces in two states with second state printed in blue several after Charles Eisen blue state generally on china. xi 155 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Plates in Two States. Vizetelly & Co. [J. Miller and Sons, Printers, Edinburgh] unknown books
19491485New York: Pantheon 1949. First Thus. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. A. Maillol . 175 pp. red cloth blindstamped with cupid title in black at spine. Woodcuts throughout by Aristide Maillol. In a rather bright dustjacket with only light creasing at rear within mylar. A handsome copy. <br/><br/> Pantheon hardcover books
1885288670London: Vizetelly & Co 1885. hardcover. very good. Prudhon Baron Gerard and Philippe d'Orleans. Translated from the Greek. Illustrated with copper-plate engravings after designs by Prudhon Baron Gerard and Philippe d'Orleans. xii 155 pages. 8vo handsomely rebound by Morrell in 3/4 brown polished calf with ornate gilt-decorated spine; lightly worn at extremities. London: Vizetelly & Co no date circa 1885. A very good copy with charming ownership bookplate.<br/><br/> Vizetelly & Co unknown books
19313890Paris: Se trouve ‡ Paris chez l'Artiste 8 Rue Lacretelle 1931. A superb production Limited to 250 numbered copies beige flexible wrappers with printed illustration and lettering on cover glassine wrapper contents entirely unbound and gathered in folded groups as issued. 192p. 3p. With 26 original etchings by Jean Dulac. 23 x 16 cm. In marbled cardboard cover and cardboard slipcase. Very fine. A wonderful production. Scarce. <br/><br/> Se trouve ‡ Paris, chez l'Artiste, 8 Rue Lacretelle unknown books
