(LATENAY GASTON DE) Homer Nausikaa

Sale 2358 - Lot 164

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(LATENAY, GASTON DE.) Homer. Nausikaa. 26 hors text color plates and 24 illustrations by de Latenay. Small folio, original blue-grey pictorial wrappers, repair to head of spine; scattered, very minor and primarily marginal foxing. Accompanying the volume is the original prospectus, thin small folio, printed wrappers (spine reinforced) with one folded illustrated folio sheet (scattered soiling). Paris: Piazza & Cie., 1899

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number 130 of 330 copies on vélin de vosges à la cuve from a total edition of 400. De Latenay's softly colored romantic Art Nouveau style illustrations of Leconte de Lisle's translation of this episode from they Odyssey. Carteret IV; 235; Harvard 70.