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Cranach Presse.
Vargilius Maro, Publius. Les Eglogues de Virgile. Text original et traduction nouvelle par Marc Lafargue. Imprimees par Harry de Kessler. Weimar, Cranach Presse, Paris, Galerie Druet, 1926. 4 p., 110 p., 3 p. With 43 original woodcuts by Aristide Maillol, initials by Eric Gill. Loose sheets in illustrated OU (somewhat faded) in orig. hprgt folder (loose and faded) with binding. - Fl. throughout, some wear. Muller-Krumbach 41, Guerin 15-59, Monod II 11336, Schauer II 73, one of 250 copies numbered in Arabic. Copies (total edition 292) on "papier special de chanvre". The work, probably one of the most beautiful German bibliophile books of the 20th century, was produced between 1912 and 1925/26.
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