Lot 08718

[ΘΕΟΚΡΙΤΟΣ] Theocrite – LOARISTYS / ΟΑΡΙΣΤΥΣ, Pari, Eduard Pelletan (ed.), M.D.CCC.XCVI (1896). In 8vo, p. 41,[13]. 41 paginated pages on hand made paper (Bütten) with etchings and vignettes by GEORGES BELLENGER. Limited edition, No. 273 of 350 copies on untrimmed wove paper. With a beautiful bookplate of Arthur Christian (1838-1906), former director of the French Imprimerie Nationale”. OWN SIGNATURE BY EDOUARD PELLETAN (publisher of the book) to Arthur Christian on endpaper.

Bilingual Ancient Greek/French. First parts text (p. i-xi) is preceded by a “Letter from Sicily” by Anatole France. Hand-bound private half-leather/ (unique) on five real frets, with large leather corners, cut not ebarbed and artistically polychrome marbled endpapers. Slight rubbing and bumping, but heavilly cracked hinges. Clean and tight inside, with sparse spotting. Good copy overall.