Les Pastorales (illus. J-B. Vettiner) by Theocritus - Theocrite (trans. Gabriel SOULAGES) - 1923

Delagrave, Paris, n.d. 211p. Cloth. Few rust stains. Name on cover.

Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1960. 5th ed. XXXIV,223(x2)p. Sewn. Signature on free endpaper. Series: Budé, Bucoliques Grecs, 1.

Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1953. 4th. rev.ed. XXXIV,223(x2)p. Sewn. Partly unopened. Series: Budé, Bucoliques Grecs, 1.

Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1960/1967. xxxii+ ca. 400, xi+ ca. 500 pp. parallel Greek text and French translation, with notes; very good condition (a few neat pencil notes in volume I, volume 2 unused)

Presses Universitaires De France. Very Good. 1968. Softcover. Spine creased. Light foxing to wraps. ; In Greek, with commentary in French. ; Érasme: XIII. Collection De Textes Grecs Commentés; 169 pages .

Presses Universitaires De France. Very Good. 1968. Softcover. Spine creased. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). ; In Greek, with commentary in French. ; Érasme: XIII. Collection De Textes Grecs Commentés; 169 pages .

Paris: A l’Enseigne du Pot Casse. , C. (1929). Boards sunned. Interior is clean and crisp.. Binding: Full green suede boards, faded. Gilt lettering and tooling on flat spine. Wide suede turn-ins, with gilt-tooled dentelles. Heavier green marbled pasted and free endpapers. Top edges marbled red. Housed in paperboard slipcase marbled green as with endpapers. , Notes: Text in French. Limited edition no. 1639., Size: Small 8vo. (173 x 105mm), Illustration: A very good example of this translation of Theocritus’ poems. Publisher’s ticket bound in at back. , Provenance: Marie D. Bauset lettered in gilt at bottom edge of turn-in. , Category: Book Classics; Book Literature;

Paris: René Kieffer, 1923. Limited Edition. Near fine. Jean-Baptiste Vettiner (1871-1935). 4to, 10 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches (260 x 200 mm); pp. iv + 156. 32 woodcuts by Jean-Baptiste Vettiner. Binding by René Kieffer in dark blue crushed morocco, title in gilt, with ONE OF THE ORIGINAL WOOD-BLOCKS HEIGHTENED WITH GILT AND INSET INTO THE UPPER COVER. Blue striped endpapers, a slight one-inch split along the front hinge of the pastedown and ffep, top edge gilt, rest uncut, blue silk ribbon page marker. Original printed upper paper wrapper and unprinted paper spine bound in. This is copy no. 251 of 500 copies. With an ORIGINAL PEN AND INK SKETCH BY THE ARTIST bound in. A beautiful copy of a classic collection of pastoral poems and elegies by the Sicilian poet Theocritus (c. 300 B.C. - c. 260 B.C.), know for his epic and pastoral works in Greek. The energetic woodcuts that illustrate each of the stories are the work of Jean-Baptiste Vettiner (1871-1935), a French artist and engraver who studied at the… Read More

Paris: René Kieffer, 1923. Limited Edition. Near fine. Jean-Baptiste Vettiner (1871-1935). 4to, 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches (260 x 194 mm); pp. iv + 156. This is copy no. 7 of the DELUXE EDITION of 50 printed on vélin teinté with the ADDITIONAL SET OF 41 WOODCUTS PRINTED ON JAPON PELURE and mounted at the rear of the book. 32 woodcuts by Jean-Baptiste Vettiner, plus the original front paper wrapper bound in at the front of the book, and the original paper back strip tipped in at the rear of the book. Dark green embossed morocco by René Kieffer - binder's ticket mounted to front free endpaper - black tooled with a central medallion bearing a classical Grecian crouching female nude, surrounded by vines and grapes and with additional decorative motifs that run across the boards and spine; spine sunned and front hinge starting, edges rubbed in places, marbled endpapers, title in gilt, t.e.g., rest uncut. Occasional foxing and staining in the margins around the mounted woodcuts, not affecting images. A… Read More