Poèmes antiques. by LECONTE DE LISLE, [Charles-Marie].

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~ Poèmes antiques. Paris: [Draeger frères for] Société des Amis des Livres, [30 June], 1908.

4to (274 × 180 mm), pp. [4], 232, [8], plus etched frontispiece. Numerous full-page and smaller etched plates by Maurice Ray, text within green decorative borders. Original terracotta wrappers, printed in gold, preserved in contemporary full green goatskin by Georges Huser, with borders formed of mauve floral onlays, ink and wash paper onlay to the upper cover depicting the ruins of a Greek temple, gilt edges, slipcase. Spine evenly faded, joints very slightly rubbed.

Number 40 of 110 copies printed for the Société des Amis des Livres, this one for Baron Roger Portalis (a founder member of this bibliophilic circle, and an eminent historian of engraving) This is an especially elegant belle-époqe edition of the Parnassian poet Leconte de Lisle’s first collection (first published in 1852) with a sequence of highly-refined illustrations by Maurice Ray. The binding is by Georges Huser (1879-1961), who had worked for binders David, Noulhac and Lemardeley before establishing himself independently as the latter’s successor in 1903.

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