ROLAND MEUTER, bookbinder. MAILLOL, Aristide. OVIDE. ~ L'Art d'aimer.
12 original lithographs and 15 woodcuts by Artistide Maillol. No. 73 of 225 copies, signed by the artist and editor in pencil, (there were also 50 copies for Zwemmer in London and 50 suites of plates). Printed on special handmade paper made by les Manufactures Canson et Montgolfier, after the process of Aristide and Gaspard Maillol. Pp. 124. Folio, bound by Roland Meuter in a full mosaic binding of orange morocco with inlaid sections of tan morocco and gold covered leather with inlaid silhouettes in white leather of nudes in line. Housed in the original morocco backed linen solander box with white lettering on spine. Extremely good with only occasional mild spotting.
Bound by the Swiss bookbinder Roland Meuter, who still binds in his atelier in Weggis.