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(FRIESZ, ÉMILE-OTHON.) Petronius Arbiter. Le Satiricon. Traduit par Laurent Tailhade. 40 color lithographs by Friesz, including illustration on front wrapper, all but the plate facing page 46 in duplicate, and with 2-4 additional proofs of 5 of the illustrations bound in. Half-title. Folio, 366x280 mm, contemporary 1/2 red levant gilt, original wrappers bound in; contents immaculate. Paris: Aux Dépens d'un Amateur, 1949
first friesz edition, limited to 218 copies, published under the supervision of Daniel Sickles and René Gas in the year of the artist's death. This copy, corresponding to none of the issues described on the limitation page, is roman-number 9 printed for Gas,warmly inscribed to him by friesz and sickles, with the text and duplicate suites of the illustrations on vélin d'Arches.
