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Ovid, Lettres Des Amoureuses, Art Nouveau Illustrations, Binding by R. Kieffer
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One of the forever-classics of world literature interpreted in a highly decorative Art Nouveau style, with color printing, gold frames on every page, and orientalist sepia wood engravings to illustrate the stories.
Ovid / Ovide. Lettres d'Amoureuses; Les Héroïdes [The Heroines];
Traduction de G. Mirous.
Illustrations de Manuel Orazi, Gravées sur bois par Perrichon.
Paris: René Kieffer, 1914. Limited Edition.
Large 4to, 11 x 8 1/4 in. (280 x 210 mm); pp. ii + 159 +vi + advertisement ; Copy no. 241 of 250 copies printed, of which 180 on Blanche-Kleber paper, printed in black, gold and sepia, decorative Déco style frames on every page, wood-engraved illustrations and decorations by Perrichon after Manuel Orazi, with advertisement for this binding bound in at end; original paper cover bound in bearing a color illustration of a woman warrior; light foxing on front and end pages, silk ribbon page marker; bound in black morocco by René Kieffer —stamp-signed on front turn-in and binder's ticket tipped in to front free endpaper— covers with central figure in gilt surrounded by border of vine leaves and cornerpieces of palmettes with circles and grapes in blind, spine with 4 raised bands and panel of vine leaves in gilt and palmettes in blind at head and foot, a.e.g., silk doublures printed with classical Greek motifs in rust and blue-grey, marbled endpapers, leather turn-ins with gilt fillets, very slight wear to joints and corners.
Condition: Fine.
The Roman poet OVID (Publius Ovidius Naso) 43 BC – 18 AD lived during the reign of Augustus and was a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature. Most famous for the "Metamorphoses", he made his earlier success with "The Art of Love" (Ars Amatoria) and this collection "The Heroines", a collection of fictitious letters attributed to heroines of mythology, where characters like Dido, Penelope and Medea write to their partners expressing their emotions at being separated from them, pleas for their return, and allusions to their future actions within their own mythology.
Manuel orazi (1860–1934) was a French painter, illustrator, poster designer and decorator of Italian origin, mainly associated with the Art Nouveau style.
- Dimensions:Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 8.25 in (20.96 cm)Depth: 1.25 in (3.18 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1914
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Middletown, NY
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