LOUŸS Pierre (1870-1925). Les Chansons de Bilitis, translated from Greek for the first time. Paris, Librairie de l'Art Indépendant, 1895 (completed printing dated 3 December 1894); small square in-8, pink half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillet, smooth spine decorated throughout with special gilt and almond green mosaic irons, gilt head, cover (Charles Lanoé). First edition of the collection that propelled Louÿs into the closed circle of poets acclaimed by both critics and the public. Copy on tinted vellum, No. 167. Bound at the head with a hand-coloured frontispiece by William Fel, signed in graphite, and 5 autograph letters from Pierre Louÿs to an anonymous addressee, concerning a first edition missing from Parisian libraries, the use of the telephone, a train journey, and a copy of Cléandre at a bookseller's on rue de Châteaudun.... Ex-libris Germaine Cavé. A fine copy. Talvart et Place, XII; p. 320, 9 a.