Oct 01, 2014 - Sale 2358

Sale 2358 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SINTENIS, RENÉE.) Sappho. Carmina. With 12 engraved plates by Renée Sintenis, Greek text and ornaments by E. R. Weiss. 4to, original pink paper-covered boards, heavily spotted and spine faded; internally clean but for a faint dampstain to hinges and gutter of central signature. Munich: Piper & Co., 1921
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number 58 of 185 arabic numbered copies printed on tinted parchment, from a total edition of 250. An elegant rendition of Sappho by the talented husband and wife team of Sintensis and Weiss. Among the best of the outstanding modern editions of classical authors that were published in post WWI Germany, notable for Weiss's finely engraved Greek letters. The Artist & The Book 1860-1960, 286.