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Georgiques by VIRGIL - 1937

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Georgiques by VIRGIL - 1937

Georgiques

by VIRGIL

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Paris: Philippe Gonin, 1937. MAILLOL, Aristide. MAILLOL, Aristide, [artist]. VIRGIL. Les Georgiques. French text by L'Abbe Jacques Delile. Paris: Philippe Gonin, 1937-1943 (1950).

First Maillol edition. Volumes I & II are each one of 750 copies and the third volume is one of twenty copies pulled for the artist. Three folio volumes (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches). [2], 174, [2]; [2], 154, [2]; [154] pp. With 122 Maillol woodcut illustrations (including a few repeats). Volume I contains 61 woodcuts of which some are illustrated initials and volume two contains the same number. The third volume contains two extra suites of the illustrations, one in black and the other in red (or 'sanguine'). The two extra sets are in their own paper wrappers and each has the artist's 'M' stamped on the cover as well as the limitation number (VII/XX) and Gonin's initials in pencil. Every page of the extra suites has the stamped 'M' and the pencilled limitation number. The first two volumes are printed on wove paper with two watermarks of Maillol nudes (one with no lettering and the other with 'Maillol Gonin').

Each of the three volumes is comprised of loose sheets in paper wrappers laid into quarter vellum chemises (except the third) and with slipcases. Very light dusting to cases. Wrappers and opening and closing pages with very minute foxing (typical for this production). Overall, a pristine set.

"In 1908, returning from Greece with Kessler, Maillol stopped at Naples and Pompeii and executed a few drawings. Shortly thereafter he cut the first block for the Georgica and was able to save it from a fire in 1915 which destroyed his Montval studio. In the following years he made a few other cuts for this volume, which Kessler was unable to complete as a companion to the Ecologae. In 1937 Gonin urged Maillol to resume the work, and the last block was delivered to the publisher in September, 1944, shortly before the artist's death" (Artist & the Book).

The Artist & the Book 175. Rauch 144.

HBS 66782.

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  • Bookseller Heritage Book Shop, LLC US (US)
  • Illustrator MAILLOL, Aristide
  • Book Condition Used
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Publisher Philippe Gonin
  • Place of Publication Paris
  • Date Published 1937
  • Keywords Illustrated Books|Fine Printing

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by Virgil

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