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Maillol. - Virgil.

Les Georgiques. Latin text and French version by L'Abbé Jacques Delille. Engravings on wood by Aristide Maillol. 2 volumes.

Paris, Gonin 1937-1950.

Folio. 330 pages on laid paper. With 122 original woodcuts by Aristide Maillol. Original black morocco bindings on 7 frets with spine title. (Signed: Schoy Workshop). - Mailol's last and most artistically mature illustrated work, on specially made laid paper. Beautifully printed, it is a successful complement to Virgil's Eclogues, produced in 1926 on the Cranach press. Outstanding bindings by Frida Schoy, a student of Dorfner. She cultivated a matter-of-factly rigorous style, always extremely precise in her craftsmanship. In 1948, she took over the direction of the "Leather and Paper" group at the Folkwang Werkkunstschule. - The Artist and the Book 175. - Rauch 144. - Guérin I, 159ff.

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