Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Longus Sophista. Maillol, Aristide. Daphnis et Chloé. (Les Pastorales.) Traduction d’Amyot revue et complétée par P.-L. Courier. Bois originaux d’Aristide Maillol.

With 48 orig. woodcuts (incl. 1 on wrappers) by A. Maillol. (4) leaves, 217, (1) pp., (3) leaves, (4) blank leaves. Large 8vo. Full ivory pigskin over 4 raised bands with gilt-lettered spine and gilt tooled title and vignette on front board. Top edge gilt, slipcase (sign. Morf). – Paris, (Frères Gonin), 1937.

One of 500 numbered copies on greyish Maillol/Gonin paper. Signed in the colophon by Maillol. The Swiss bookbinder Friedhold Morf (1901-1960) was a student of F. H. Ehmcke in Munich. In 1933, he returned to Switzerland, where he became a teacher for bookbinding at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich. – (Added:) Separate suite of 49 woodcuts (2 repeated) on single leaves. 8vo. In publisher’s folder. – Carteret IV, 243 (“Belle édition, très cotée”); Guérin nos. 76–127; Monod 7261; Rauch 141; cf. The Artist and the Book 174 (English version published in the same year by Zwemmer, London); Editions Gonin, no. 32. – Fine copy in a handsome handcraft binding. The folder and some of the leaves of the extra suite with some foxing in parts. – Best.-Nr. 26804