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Dunoyer de Segonzac, André - Vergilius Maro, Publius. Les Géorgiques. Traduit par Michel de Marolles. 4 parts in 2 volumes. With 119 (of which 99 folio-sized) original etchings by André Dunoyer de Segonzac, and an extra suite of 119 folio-sized original etchings. Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1944-1947. gr. folio. 201 pp, [1] fol.; 213 pp, [2] fol. Loose double sheets in original wrappers in original green half cloth covers and slipcases (minimally rubbed and bumped). Monod 11340 - Garvey 281st - One of 50 numbered copies (GA 250) on Vélin Arches, title page of extra suite numbered and signed by the artist. - Etchings printed by Jacques Frélaut. - "After Vollard had seen the illustrations for "La treille muscate", he wished Segonzac to do another series for Colette, but the artist persuaded him to plan a Virgil (...) The artist brought the book out himself. His landscape has a classical, pastoral quality whose freshness is due to the immediacy of execution" (Garvey 281). - Volumes I and II foxed in the margins (Volume I partly somewhat stronger and in places within the illustrations), otherwise fine copy.
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