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Daphnis and Chloe. Translation by Andrew M. Burnett ALLIX. – Longus.
Daphnis and Chloe. Translation by Andrew M. Burnett.

. Allix, Susan. Daphnis and Chloe. Translation by Andrew M. Burnett.

With 21 full-page color etchings (including 6 uncolored, a few with sepia) by Susan Allix, signed in pencil . 91 (1) pp., 2 leaves. 4to. Full light brown morocco tooled and painted to an abstract design with double fillet in blue and yellow, both covers with abstract designs in blue, brown, black, yellow and orange and blind-stamped shapes. In quarter morocco box with an octagona glass window set into the top cover to reveal the binding (by Allix). – London, Willow Press, 1982.

One of 55 numbered copies, with an autograph dedication by Allix in colophon „To Arnold and Mimi Elkind ... 1982“, signed. Signed as well by A. M. Burnett. An exceptional binding matching the color engravings. – Best.-Nr. 8526

CHF 2500.—
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ASHENDENE PRESS. – Longus.
Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé. Traduction de Messire J. Amyot, éditée et corrigée par Paul-Louis Courier.

. Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé. Traduction de Messire J. Amyot, éditée et corrigée par Paul-Louis Courier.

Title and marginal notes printed in red, initials filled in by hand in blue by Graily Hewitt. With 26 woodcuts in the text by Gwendolin Raverat. IV, 163 pp. Small 4to. Orig. half vellum with gilt lettered spine and green boards with gilt-stamped vignette. In cardboard slipcase with orange ornamental pattern (corners of boards slightly bumped). – Chelsea, The Ashendene Press, 1933.

One of 290 copies printed on Batchelor hand-made paper besides 20 on vellum. Set in Ptolemy type. – Ashendene Bibliography XXXIX. – Exlibris Margaret and John Streeter on second flyleaf. Fine copy. – Best.-Nr. 8784

CHF 1500.—
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Longus.
Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé ... translatées en François par Jacques Amyot.

. Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé ... translatées en François par Jacques Amyot.

With engr. frontispiece after Coypel, and 29 partly folded copperplates after Philippe d’Orléans. XII, 207 pp. Small 8vo. Contemp. green tinted half vellum with ms. title on spine. – Bouillon, Société Typographique, 1776.

With two prefaces, one by the editor, one by the translator. The present plates drawn by Philippe d’Orléans, nephew of Louis XIV, were first published in 1718. – Cf. Brunet III, 1157f. (eds. of 1718 and 1745). – Good copy. – Best.-Nr. 7315

CHF 400.—
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Daphnis et Chloé. (Les Pastorales.) Traduction d’Amyot revue et complétée par P.-L- Courier. Bois originaux d’Aristide Maillol MAILLOL. – Longus (Sophista).
Daphnis et Chloé. (Les Pastorales.) Traduction d’Amyot revue et complétée par P.-L- Courier. Bois originaux d’Aristide Maillol.

. Maillol, Aristide. Daphnis et Chloé. (Les Pastorales.) Traduction d’Amyot revue et complétée par P.-L- Courier. Bois originaux d’Aristide Maillol.

With 48 orig. woodcuts (incl. 1 on wrappers) and an extra suite of 46 orig. woodcuts plus 1 plate initials in sanguine by A. Maillol. (4) leaves, 217, (1) pp., (3) leaves, (4) blank leaves. Large 8vo. Loose quires as issued in orig. wrappers, half vellum sleeve, and slipcase. The extra suite in own separate wrappers within the same sleeve. – Paris, (Frères Gonin), 1937.

Exemplaire H. C. Maillol (No. CCXXVIII) on Maillol/Gonin paper. Signed in the colophon by Maillol and the Gonins. – Carteret IV, 243 (“Belle édition, très cotée”); Guérin nos. 76–127; Monod 7261; Rauch 141; cf. The Artist and the Book 174 (English version published in the same year by Zwemmer, London). – Some foxing in parts, mostly to the uncut margins. Few quires with slight browning. Good copy in all. – Best.-Nr. 13080

CHF 1800.—
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