THÉOCRITE; LAURENS (Henri)Livre Rare Book
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17567Paris, Tériade éditeur, 1945. In-folio, 112 pp., maroquin noir de Françoise Lévy-Bauer, composition mosaïquée de box noir et havane ornée de filets havane et reproduisant le frontispice au premier plat, dos lisse, doublure de box noir ornée d'un filet doré à encadrement de maroquin noir et havane, doublure de box noir, couverture gaufrée originale et orné d'une feuille d'or également gaufrée, étui bordé de même maroquin (décharges).
1896ST16988Paris: Édouard Pelletan 1896. No. 9 OF 25 COPIES from a total run of 350 WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR by Georges Bellenger and two extra suites of illustrations signed by E. Froment. 295 x 228 mm. 11 5/8 x 9". 3 p.l. xi 4 16-41 9 pp. 1 leaf blank. French translation by André Bellessort. Prefaced by a letter from Anatole France. <br/> ELEGANT HONEY BROWN MOROCCO GILT BY LORTIC fils covers with Greek key frame central panel enclosed by interlocking frames of brown and gilt rules embellished with gilt volutes and flowers oblique palmette cornerpieces raised bands spine compartments with centerpiece formed by drawer-handle tools and palmettes gilt lettering wide turn-ins with palmette frame purple watered silk endleaves marbled paper flyleaves all edges gilt. Original paper wrappers bound in. Preserved in a calf-lined marbled paper slipcase. Text in two alternating decorative frames tailpiece at end and 12 illustrations three of them full-page by Georges Bellenger engraved by E. Froment this copy with two additional suites of the 15 engravings one on japon one on chine bound at rear and WITH AN ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR of two nymphs tormenting a faun SIGNED BY GEORGES BELLENGER. Parallel text in Greek and French on facing pages. Front flyleaf with engraved armorial bookplate. Carteret IV 377. ◆A couple of tiny dark spots to front board title page with three small spots of foxing but A VERY FINE COPY clean and fresh internally with generous margins the watercolor on bright stock and the binding unworn.<br/> <br/> From one of the leading publishers of luxury editions during what Ray calls "the golden age of bibliophiles" this is an excerpt from the "Idylls" of Theocritus in a binding from an esteemed Parisian workshop. Marcellin Lortic 1852-1928 was trained by his father Pierre 1822-92 one of the great binders of 19th century Paris; the firm was known for their superb interpretations of traditional styles. Flety notes that unlike his father Lortic fils handled all aspects of a binding himself as designer binder and gilder. He was an eccentric workaholic living alone in his workshop and devoting his life to his craft. According to Flety "his bindings appeared in numerous libraries of great collectors of his time" who showed their satisfaction and appreciation with persistent loyalty. Protective of his reputation--and also loathe to work with others--he refused to hire an apprentice/successor choosing instead to sell his equipment and tools when he was no longer able to work. <br /> <br /> Our text follows in the tradition of an ancient Greek poetic form comprising a conversation between two lovers often unsurprisingly with amorous content--in the present case seduction leading to marriage. The style was adopted by and enjoyed a vogue among Symbolist poets like Paul Verlaine in the 19th century. The illustrations--alive with nymphs fauns and other mythological creatures--are the work of Georges Bellenger 1847-1918. He exhibited landscapes and still life paintings in the Paris Salon but was best known for his lithographs. He received a commendation from the Société des Artistes Français in 1889. Édouard Pelletan unknown
1760239329London 1760. hardcover. fine. viii 493 3 pages with parallel Greek and Latin texts. Imperial 8vo a beautiful binding in choice state attributed to Staggemeier. Full navy blue straight-grained morocco gilt broad roll border on sides in gilt and blind with gilt inner cornerpieces; ornate spine tooled in gilt and blind in compartments with double bands; edges marbled and gilt. London: Impensis Editoris. Prostant venalia apud C. Hitch & L. Hawkes D. Prince and E. Easton 1760. A superb copy of this scarce large paper edition.<br/> <br/> From the library of William Beckford of Fonthill Lot 2533 in Part III of the Beckford sale July 1883. Later in the collections of Sir Edward Sullivan Jean Gennadius & Henry Clements. OCLC lists 23 copies including those at Columbia Yale Harvard & Cambridge.<br/> <br/> unknown
1760239329London 1760. hardcover. fine. viii 493 3 pages with parallel Greek and Latin texts. Imperial 8vo a beautiful binding in choice state attributed to Staggemeier. Full navy blue straight-grained morocco gilt broad roll border on sides in gilt and blind with gilt inner cornerpieces; ornate spine tooled in gilt and blind in compartments with double bands; edges marbled and gilt. London: Impensis Editoris. Prostant venalia apud C. Hitch & L. Hawkes D. Prince and E. Easton 1760. A superb copy of this scarce large paper edition.<br/><br/> From the library of William Beckford of Fonthill Lot 2533 in Part III of the Beckford sale July 1883. Later in the collections of Sir Edward Sullivan Jean Gennadius & Henry Clements. OCLC lists 23 copies including those at Columbia Yale Harvard & Cambridge.<br/><br/> unknown books
19551911Paris, Maeght, 1955. Un volume in-folio en feuilles, couverture illustrée d'une gravure en couleurs à l'aquatinte et carborundum, vernie par l'artiste lui-même, étui-chemise éditeur décoré de collages de papiers de couleur. - 20 EAUX-FORTES ORIGINALES DE GEORGES BRAQUE : 16 gravures hors-texte exécutées en 1932 pour Ambroise Vollard, et 4 gravures réalisées en 1953 : la couverture en 5 couleurs vernie au pinceau par l'artiste, le frontispice en 2 couleurs, la tête de chapitre et le cul-de-lampe. - Tirage à 150 exemplaires numérotés sur Auvergne et signés par l'artiste. Celui-ci le n° 23 signé par Braque. Tirage unique - Conservé en parfait état. - Note historique : En 1931, Braque illustre la Théogonie du poète grec Hésiode (VIIe siècle av. J.-C) pour le marchand, éditeur et passionné de gravure, Ambroise Vollard. Le récit, consacré à la naissance de l’univers et à l’origine des dieux, est considéré comme l’un des grands textes de la mythologie grecque. Entre 1932 et 1935, l’artiste exécute une série de seize eaux-fortes qui seront publiées par Maeght en 1955 : ligne noire imprimée sur fond blanc pour les gravures et, en négatif, ligne blanche découpée sur fond noir pour les plâtres peints et gravés que Braque crée en parallèle. Comme les figures mythologiques et les natures mortes de l’époque, ces œuvres possèdent un style curvilinéaire et propice à la métamorphose. (The Artist and the Book 38). --- ENGLISH DESCRIPTION: GEORGES BRAQUE (1882-1963). THEOGONIA - the complete set of twenty (20) etchings, title paper, text in Greek by Hesiod, justification, and index of plates on Auvergne paper, watermark Montval, 1932-1955, one of the 150 (n. 23), signed in pencil on the the justification, published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, 1955, in mint good condition, loose (as issued), with paper wrappers, within black paper-covered boards and slipcase, with collage design on front and back, title, artist's and author's name on spine. Overall: 18 x 13 7/8 in. (457 x 352 mm.) Condition : near mint, a beautiful copy with the editor decorated slipcase in near mint condition too.
194530232Paris Triade 1945 In-4, box rose fonc orn sur chaque plat d'arabesques de listels irrguliers mosaqus en mme box rose fonc et souligns d'un filet l'oeser beige, dlimitant des mosaques de bois beige ros; rappel du dcor sur le dos sans nerfs portant le titre de l'ouvrage dont les lettres mosaques en box rose fonc sont soulignes par des filets l'oeser beige; doublures et gardes de daim lilas, tranches dores sur brochure, couverture illustre. Chemise, tui (Georges Leroux, 1984).Une couverture illustre en relief et or, un frontispice, 15 illustrations pleine page, 2 bandeaux, 17 culs-de-lampe et 3 in-texte, gravs sur bois par Tho Schmied d'aprs Henri Laurens et imprims en sanguine. Tirage limit 220 exemplaires numrots sur verg d'Arches, signs par l'artiste. Un des 30 premiers exemplaires, seuls comporter une suite de tous les bois sur chine. A figur l'exposition Reliure franaise contemporaine (New York, Grolier Club, dcembre 1987 - janvier 1988, n73, reproduction). De la bibliothque Henri Paricaud (Paris, Claude Blaizot, 1996, n59, reproduction).
149574RD10G5BNTUVenice: Aldus Manutius 1495. Modern red morocco sewn on 5 supports gold- and blind-blocked red sprinkled edges. Folio. With 8 fine woodcut headpieces 2 by the famous Poliphilus master plus 29 repeats and 23 woodcut outline interlaced initials 3 series: 3-line 5-line and 7-line plus 16 repeats. Rare first issue of the first and only edition of a collection of Greek works many of the individual works appearing here in their first editions: one of the first books produced by the famous printer-publisher Aldus Manutius published less than a year after his first book. In fact Aldus printed only one complete book before the present edition though he also issued the first parts of two others all in Greek and published Bembo's Latin De Aetna in the same month.The first editions in the present collection include 12 of the Ecloques of Theocritus Hesiod's Theogonia or De generatione deorum and selections from the Greek gnomic poets. It is the most interesting of all Aldine Greek editions containing a wide variety of linguistic forms and packed with mythological or moralizing passages and as such highly interesting for the history of education and of humanism in general and the beginning of the study of Greek language and literature in particular. There are two issues of the present edition and the present first issue is the rarer. With armorial bookplate on the last leaf below the colophon. In very good condition and with large margins with the first 2 and last 2 leaves somewhat foxed a few leaves with small marginal worm holes along the foot edge or very faint marginal water stains none approaching the text. One of the most important books and nearly the first printed by Aldus Manutius in the rare first issue.l BMC V554-555; BN Paris T101; BSB T148; Essling 888; Goff T144; Hoffmann III 473-474; IDL 4302; IGI 9497; Plelechet/Polain 11059; Renouard p. 1495 no. 3 'éd. très rare'; Sander 7235; Sheehan Vaticana T48; UCLA 7; Walsh Harvard 2635-2637; not in Polain; cf. Lowry The world of Aldus Manutius p. 114; for the bookplate: http://images.library.yale.edu/walpoleweb/oneitem.aspimageId=lwlpr21280. Aldus Manutius, unknown
1495259147Venice: Aldus Manutius 1495. First Aldine edition and the first complete edition of Theocritus printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time; the first edition of HESIOD'S THEOGONY; second edition of his WORKS AND DAYS; and first editions of most of the other minor works enumerated below; and first setting of quires £I °E F and £K °E G. Title in Greek and Roman introduction by Aldus in Latin; text entirely in Greek. Woodcut decorated initials and floral or strapwork headpieces ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT IN COLORS AND GOLD IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. 140 leaves. 1 vols. Folio 315 x 210 mm. Bound in early 18th-century mottled calf spine in 7 compartments with citron morocco lettering piece in one and ornamental tooling in the rest; title soiled and shaved along fore-edge extensive neatly penned marginalia in Greek and Latin in two different hands; gilt edges gauffered to all-over pattern of intersecting diagonal fillets and fleurons. Bookplate of St. Benedict's Abbey Fort Augustus Scotland. First Aldine edition and the first complete edition of Theocritus printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time; the first edition of HESIOD'S THEOGONY; second edition of his WORKS AND DAYS; and first editions of most of the other minor works enumerated below; and first setting of quires £I °E F and £K °E G. Title in Greek and Roman introduction by Aldus in Latin; text entirely in Greek. Woodcut decorated initials and floral or strapwork headpieces ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT IN COLORS AND GOLD IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. 140 leaves. 1 vols. Folio 315 x 210 mm. First Aldine and first complete edition of the Idylls of Theocritus of which 12 appear here for the first time also including the first edition in the original Greek of Hesiod's Theogony and Shield of Hercules and the elegies of Theognis as well as the second edition of Hesiod's Works and Days which were first printed in Milan circa 1480. This is the first setting of gatherings zeta.F and theta.G with the text uncorrected.<br /> <br /> Not only is this copy beautifully colored in a contemporary hand none such appear in ABPC for the last 35 years and we are unable to find any institutional copies with coloring but the copy is notable as well for profuse neat contemporary marginalia mostly in Latin but often in Greek which fill the book.<br /> <br /> The marginal annotations are particularly extensive in the first two Idylls where typically underscored words are explained in the margins; occasionally an interlinear Latin word is provided beneath the Greek in an even smaller but always clear hand. The notes themselves are mostly philological in scope with notations on unusual Doric Theocritus's dialect forms e.g. the Doric form for the preposition 'πpòs' being 'πotì' the identification of parts of speech and grammatical forms poetic usage etc. Especially notable too are frequent comparisons and cross references to passages from Vergil's Eclogues. In the famous Idyll 2 "Pharmaceutria" where a spurned maiden utters incantations to bring her man back home there now seem to be two distinct hands and the notes are particularly frequent and copious. The first note reads: "Unde sumpta est Verg. Pharmaceutria" whence Vergil got his Pharmaceutria.<br /> <br /> A beautiful copy of a rare and important book with fascinating early annotations. Renouard page 53; New UCLA 7; Hoffmann III 473-74; HC 15477; BMC V 554-55; Goff T144; ISTC it00144000 Aldus Manutius unknown
1495259147Venice: Aldus Manutius 1495. First Aldine edition and the first complete edition of Theocritus printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time; the first edition of HESIOD'S THEOGONY; second edition of his WORKS AND DAYS; and first editions of most of the other minor works enumerated below; and first setting of quires £I °E F and £K °E G. Title in Greek and Roman introduction by Aldus in Latin; text entirely in Greek. Woodcut decorated initials and floral or strapwork headpieces ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT IN COLORS AND GOLD IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. 140 leaves. 1 vols. Folio 315 x 210 mm. Bound in early 18th-century mottled calf spine in 7 compartments with citron morocco lettering piece in one and ornamental tooling in the rest; title soiled and shaved along fore-edge extensive neatly penned marginalia in Greek and Latin in two different hands; gilt edges gauffered to all-over pattern of intersecting diagonal fillets and fleurons. Bookplate of St. Benedict's Abbey Fort Augustus Scotland. First Aldine edition and the first complete edition of Theocritus printing 12 of the 30 Idylls here for the first time; the first edition of HESIOD'S THEOGONY; second edition of his WORKS AND DAYS; and first editions of most of the other minor works enumerated below; and first setting of quires £I °E F and £K °E G. Title in Greek and Roman introduction by Aldus in Latin; text entirely in Greek. Woodcut decorated initials and floral or strapwork headpieces ILLUMINATED THROUGHOUT IN COLORS AND GOLD IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND. 140 leaves. 1 vols. Folio 315 x 210 mm. First Complete Theocritus With Contemporary Illumination and Marginalia. First Aldine and first complete edition of the Idylls of Theocritus of which 12 appear here for the first time also including the first edition in the original Greek of Hesiod's Theogony and Shield of Hercules and the elegies of Theognis as well as the second edition of Hesiod's Works and Days which were first printed in Milan circa 1480. This is the first setting of gatherings zeta.F and theta.G with the text uncorrected.<br/><br/>Not only is this copy beautifully colored in a contemporary hand none such appear in ABPC for the last 35 years and we are unable to find any institutional copies with coloring but the copy is notable as well for profuse neat contemporary marginalia mostly in Latin but often in Greek which fill the book.<br/><br/>The marginal annotations are particularly extensive in the first two Idylls where typically underscored words are explained in the margins; occasionally an interlinear Latin word is provided beneath the Greek in an even smaller but always clear hand. The notes themselves are mostly philological in scope with notations on unusual Doric Theocritus's dialect forms e.g. the Doric form for the preposition 'πpòs' being 'πotì' the identification of parts of speech and grammatical forms poetic usage etc. Especially notable too are frequent comparisons and cross references to passages from Vergil's Eclogues. In the famous Idyll 2 "Pharmaceutria" where a spurned maiden utters incantations to bring her man back home there now seem to be two distinct hands and the notes are particularly frequent and copious. The first note reads: "Unde sumpta est Verg. Pharmaceutria" whence Vergil got his Pharmaceutria.<br/><br/>A beautiful copy of a rare and important book with fascinating early annotations. Renouard page 53; New UCLA 7; Hoffmann III 473-74; HC 15477; BMC V 554-55; Goff T144; ISTC it00144000 Aldus Manutius unknown books
