Maillol, Aristide; Virgil (4 results)

Full-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Aristide Maillol (illustrator). Exclusively for the subscribers for the 25th anniversary limited edition of the Great Books of the Western world. Translated into English verse by James Rhoades. Bound in premium full leathers, hubbed spine, distinctive cover design, beautiful illustrations, permanent satin ribbon page marker, gilded page edges, moire endsheets, thread-sewn pages for durability and strength.

Full-Leather. Condition: Fine. Maillol, Aristide (woodcuts) (illustrator). Limited Edition. The 25th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Great Books of the Western World. A limited edition. Full red leather with gilt titles and decorations; all edges gilt; raised bands; silk moire endpapers; ribbon page marker. This is the higher quality full leather binding published by The Franklin Library. BB.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Aristide Maillol (illustrator). no date [1950]. Set number 1991 of the quarto (8 5/8 by 11 1/8 inches) facsimile of the 1937 original. (There was also a folio facsimile published by Gronin in 1950, limited to 750 copies). Illustrated throughout from woodcuts by Aristide Maillol. Loose sheets laid into three printed paper folders. The first two folders (2) 174 (4) and (2) (154 (4), are Les Georgiques de Virgile volumes I and II. The third folder contains 72 plates from woodcuts by Maillol. Printed on papier bouffant vergé, des Papeteries de Bellerive, under the direction of Philippe Gonin, in Latin and in the French translation of the abbé deLille. Preserved in the publisher's slipcase and half-morocco chemise, with gilt lettering and an illustration stamped in black on the spine. A very fine set. 0.

VIRGIL. Les Eclogues de Virgile. Texte Latin et Traduction Francaise de Marc Laforgue imprimees par Harry de Kessler. With 43 woodcut engravings by Aristide Maillol, initials and title-page designed by Eric Gill. Large 4to. Loose in the original wrappers and publisher's vellum-backed folding case. Leipzig: Cranach Presse, 1926. First Edition, one of only 250 copies printed in French. There were also editions in English and German. Joseph Blumenthal writes: "A Cranach Presse monument is, surely, the Virgil Eclogues of 1926 with woodcuts by Aristide Maillol, with a title page and initial letters by Eric Gill, a roman type cut under the direction of Emery Walker, and an italic by Edward Johnston. The paper was made by hand by Maillol's nephew at Monval near Paris. The book is a fine classical setting with harmonious relations between type, paper, and the exquisite illustrations." Although best-known as one of the greatest sculptors of the twentieth century, Maillol was a prolific book illustrator, and the Virgil is certainly his major work in this medium. An immaculate copy without any of the foxing which mars many copies. Ransom 163 ("landmark of the movement"). Müller-Krumbach 40 (reproducing both binding and title-page). Art of the Printed Book, p. 38 and plate 110. Artist and the Book 172. Rewald, The Woodcuts of Maillol 8-53. Evan Gill, no. 328.