Lot no. 48
LONGUS. Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé. Paris, Léon Pichon, 1919. In-8, brown morocco, framed with gilt and red fillets, gilt head, untrimmed, slipcase (period binding). Illustrated with 33 woodcuts by Charles-Émile Carlègle. Edition of 395 copies, this one unnumbered on japon, nominative for Monsieur Carlègle. "This is the artist's best illustration", according to Carteret. Artist's copy, from the Carlègle exhibition, organised in aid of his widow at the André Amiguet bookshop in November 1938. Spine slightly faded. Carteret Illustrés IV, p. 242 - Mahé II, 696.
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