DE BALZAC H.MareMagnum
3Vols The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales; The Love Books of Ovid; Ten Droll Tales
1924995H11London : John Lane The Bodley Head Limited 1924-1926. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 6". Jean de Bosschere; Henry Keen. A uniform trio of lavishly illustrated 1920s classics of Garnett Ovid and Balzac in first and limited editions complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers and vibrant Art-Deco era plates. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Complete with the original unclipped dust wrappers.A handsome uniform trio of illustrated literary editions compromising: 1924 The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales by Richard Garnett. The first illustrated edition. Illustrated with a monochrome lithographic frontispiece and twenty-seven monochrome lithographic plates by Henry Keen. Collated complete. A collection of Garnett"s rich imaginative short stories blending folklore fantasy and learned wit introduced by T. E. Lawrence.1925 The Love Books of Ovid translated by J. Lewis May. A limited edition being copy number six hundred and sixty-four of three thousand copies for sale. Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece a further fifteen coloured plates and eight monochrome plates. Collated complete. A collection of Ovid"s erotic verse Amores Ars Amatoria Remedia Amoris and Medicamina Faciei Femineae enriched by de Bosschere"s alluring illustrations.1926 Ten Droll Tales by Honoré de Balzac. A limited edition being number two thousand nine hundred and ninety-four of three thousand copies. With a coloured frontispiece a further fourteen coloured plates and eight monochrome plates. Collated complete. An engaging selection of Balzac"s lighter humorous short fiction introduced by André Maurois. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally lovely. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Slight shelf wear to extremities. One or two very minor handling marks to boards. Dust wrappers very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping resulting in one or two small chips closed tears and creasing to extremities more so to heads and tails of spines. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine John Lane The Bodley Head Limited hardcover
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