Estate / Collection: The Margolis Collection
[MAILLOL, ARISTIDE]
VIRGIL and ARISTIDE MAILLOL, illustrator. Les Géorgiques de Virgile. Texte Latin et version Française de l'Abbé Jacques Delille, gravures sur bois d'Aristide Maillol. Paris: Philippe Gonin, 1937, 1943 (but completed 1950). The text copy 476 of an edition of 700, with two sets of suites of the wood-engravings in numbered wrappers, each individual plate numbered 4 from the edition of 100, posthumously stamp-signed for Maillol. Three volumes, loose sheets in the publisher's slipcases and chemises. 12 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (32 x 24 cm); Volume I: (iv),174 (6) pp.; Volume II: (6), 154, (5) pp.; 122 original wood engravings by Maillol, printed posthumously, with two complete suites, one in black ink, one sanguine. Light soiling and wear, internally a fine set; together with LUCIEN. Dialogues des Courtisanes. [Paris, Henri Creuzevault et Dina Vierny, 1948]. Copy 95 of a total limited edition of 275 on hand-made paper. Loose sheets in publisher's vellum wrappers in slipcase and chemise. 15 x 11 1/4 inches (38 x 29 cm); 93, (5) pp., with 35 lithographs (7 full-page and monogrammed on the stone). The slipcase quite toned, the head of the chemise starting, toning to endpapers of the text, but the book essentially fine.
The first work is Rauch 144. (4)
Estate / Collection: The Margolis Collection
[MAILLOL, ARISTIDE]
VIRGIL and ARISTIDE MAILLOL, illustrator. Les Géorgiques de Virgile. Texte Latin et version Française de l'Abbé Jacques Delille, gravures sur bois d'Aristide Maillol. Paris: Philippe Gonin, 1937, 1943 (but completed 1950). The text copy 476 of an edition of 700, with two sets of suites of the wood-engravings in numbered wrappers, each individual plate numbered 4 from the edition of 100, posthumously stamp-signed for Maillol. Three volumes, loose sheets in the publisher's slipcases and chemises. 12 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (32 x 24 cm); Volume I: (iv),174 (6) pp.; Volume II: (6), 154, (5) pp.; 122 original wood engravings by Maillol, printed posthumously, with two complete suites, one in black ink, one sanguine. Light soiling and wear, internally a fine set; together with LUCIEN. Dialogues des Courtisanes. [Paris, Henri Creuzevault et Dina Vierny, 1948]. Copy 95 of a total limited edition of 275 on hand-made paper. Loose sheets in publisher's vellum wrappers in slipcase and chemise. 15 x 11 1/4 inches (38 x 29 cm); 93, (5) pp., with 35 lithographs (7 full-page and monogrammed on the stone). The slipcase quite toned, the head of the chemise starting, toning to endpapers of the text, but the book essentially fine.
The first work is Rauch 144. (4)
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, May 11, 2023