Longus

Les Pastorales ... ou Daphnis & Chloé. (Paris: Philippe Gonin, 1937)



8vo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.; 224 x 146 mm, uncut). 47 woodcut illustrations (including title-page vignette and front wrapper vignette) and 15 ornamental woodcut initials (printed to 18 impressions, by Aristide Maillol. Unsewn as issued in original wrappers. Original vellum-backed chemise and pebble-cloth slipcase.

The Artist & the Book 174

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No. IV of 25 roman-numbered copies hors commerce on japon ancien (of a whole edition of 525 copies), signed by Maillol and with an additional suite of 57 impressions of  woodcuts on different papers, including some proofs, others from uncleared blocks, and with several represented by two or more states. "[P]erhaps the most harmonious of Maillol's illustrated books" (Artist & Book).