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(CRANACH PRESS.) Virgil. The Eclogues of Vergil, in the Original Latin with an English Prose. English translation by J. H. Mason. Woodcut illustrations throughout by Aristide Maillol; head-line of title-page and intials designed and cut by Eric Gill. Folio, original linen-backed blue boards, lightly toned, with printed paper spine label, slightly chipped at corners (additional label still tipped to rear endpaper); custom buckram slipcase. (Weimar, 1927)
number 98 of 225 copies of the first english language edition, on special handmade paper by kessler, and aristide and gaspard maillol after an edition of 6 on vellum and 33 on imperial Japanese paper. "As early as 1908, Count Kessler, the director of the Cranach Presse, was attracted to Maillol's sculpture and invited the artist to go with him to Greece, where the Virgil project was conceived . . . a classical spirit pervades the finished volume, from the harmonious composition of the type to the slightly archaic grace of the figures"--The Artist & The Book 172. Delayed by war, the project was resumed several years later. From Manet to Hockney 30; Rewald 8-53; Rauch 138.
