KIEFFER, René, bookbinder. LOUŸS, Pierre. CALBET, Antoine. ~ Aphrodite Moeurs Antique.
Paris
Albin Michel, Les Grands Livres du XXe Siecle
n.d. [1923]
One of 500 copies on velin d’Arches. 75 colour collotype illustrations by Calbet. Folio, in a special signed binding by Rene Kieffer (binder’s label on flyleaf), full red leather with gilt blocking, onlays on both sides depicting Aphrodite looking into a mirror in purple, teal, citron, tan, orange and flesh pink morocco, stamped in gilt and with the monogram of the artist Antoine Calbet who designed the image, turn-ins with a single gilt fillet and gilt floral tooling in the corners, decorated red and silver endpapers, original wrappers bound in. Housed in the original marbled paper covered slipcase. Front joint a little rubbed, otherwise very good.
Stock ref: 11578
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