Ars Amandi. L’Art D’Aimer
Andre Lambert, Ovide, Pierre LievreParis: Le Livre du Bibliophile, G. & R. Briffaut, 1923.
First Thus.
27.5cm x 21.5cm. 204 pages, 23 colour etchings. Half red leather, marbled papered boards, gilt lettering and decoration, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in. Text is in French.
The Art of Love by Ovid, a new translation into French by Pierre Lievre and with illustrations by Andre Lambert. One of 404 numbered copies on Arches vellum (from a total edition of 500), this copy for Maurice de Smet de Naeyer, bound in half leather signed Weckesser.
Minor discolouration to spine. Near Fine Condition.
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AU$1,000