Baudelaire's Fleurs Du Mal, Beautifully Illustrated and with Original Drawing

Alfred de Vigny. LES DESTINÉES; Précédés de Moïse. Paris: Edouard Pelletan, 1898. Limited Edition. Quarto, 11 3/4 x 9 3/4 in (300 x 248 mm), 196 pp., red crushed morocco, boards ...

According to Eleanor Garvey "The Artist and the Book" (p. 122) this work is "perhaps the most harmonious of Maillol's illustrated books." Aristide MAILLOL, illus.; LONGUS author Daphnis and Chloe; A Most Sweet, and Pleasant Pastoral Romance for Young Ladies, translated out of the Greek of Longus by Geo. Thornley. London: A. Zwemmer [printed in Paris by Philippe Gonin], 1937. Limited Edition. 8vo, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. (200 x 132 mm); pp. vi, 211,colophon,12; 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 deckled. 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. EXTRA SUITE of 45 WOODCUTS in a separate vellum portfolio, printed in black. Fine copy in simple cardboard slipcase. 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. Garvey 174; Garvey Wick 22; BNF32393010 Condition: FINE An ancient Greek novel written during the Roman Empire, the only known work of the 2nd century AD Greek novelist and romance writer Longus, translated by George Thornley...

Published by Ives Washburn, 1931 Large Folio-sized Hardcover book; 98 pages with 16 illustrated plates by Major Felton. Translated by Lewis Piaget Shanks. Very Good Condition. A Fir...

California Illustrated by J. M. Letts Published New York: R. T. Young, 140 Fulton Street. Later edition, published 1853. Rebound in 3/4 blue calf with marbleized boards and end paper...