Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 208

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
LOUYS, PIERRE. The Songs of Bilitis. Translated by Horace Manchester Brown. Frontispiece portrait of Louys, full-page color illustrations by James Fagan with lettered tissue guards, all in three states (signed, uncolored, and colored), and hand-illuminated initials throughout. 4to, full black calf with gilt poppy design on covers and spine, with red calf onlays, joints and edges scuffed; top edges trimmed and gilt, silk doublures and endpapers, foxed, some tissue guards wrinkled, scattered light foxing. one of only three copies of the edition des bibliophiles signed by brown and printed on imperial japanese vellum the initials hand-illuminated, from a total edition of only twenty-six. London and New York: Privately printed for the members of the Aldus Society, 1904

Additional Details

with--Louys. Woman and Puppet: A Spanish Romance. 10 color plates by Clara Tice. 8vo, black cloth; original dust jacket. Number 22 of 1250 copies. Np: Privately printed for The Pierre Louys Society, (1927).