(BONNARD, PIERRE.) Longus. Les pastorales & ou Daphnis et Chloé. 156 lithographs by Bonnard, including head-and tailpieces and title-page vignette, printed by Auguste Clot. 292x242 mm; 11 1/2x9 1/2 inches, sheets. 4to, russet morocco by georges cretté, beautifully ornamented with large overall Greek key pattern of alternating gilt and black hatched fillets, partially repeated on spine; tan suede doublures and lining; all edges gilt, gatherings 6-8 slightly foxed; chemise and slipcase. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1902
number 142 of 200 copies on specially watermarked van Gelder Holland from a total edition of 250. "The lithographs, of an unprecedented lightness of touch, have been printed with such subtlety and skill that you seem to see the original crayon, and they have that marvelous spontaneity that will remain forever one of Bonnard's greatest gifts"--Guignard, as quoted in Barber, Daphnis and Chloe: the Market and Metamorphoses of an Unknown Bestseller, 1989, pages 73-4; The Artist & the Book 28; Carteret 4:242; Ray, French 384; Rauch 22; From Manet to Hockney 18.; Bouvet 75.
