Apr 26, 2018 - Sale 2475

Sale 2475 - Lot 196

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(MAILLOL, ARISTIDE.) Virgil. Les Géorgiques. 3 volumes (two of text, one containing two suites of plates). Latin text with French translation by L'Abbé Jacques Delille. 122 woodcuts in each suite including illustrated initial letters, by Maillol. Folio, contents loose as issued in printed wrappers; scattered, sometimes heavy foxing throughout; vellum-backed board chemises and vellum-edged slipcases. Printed on rag wove watermarked paper.

number 81 of 100 sets with suites in both sanguine and black, and containing maillol's final woodcuts. The Artist & The Book 175; Rauch 144. From the property of the descendants of Mary S. Collins. Paris: Philippe Gonin, 1937-43 (i.e. 1950)