159. Le Banquet, translated by Mario Meunier, 190pp., number 1 of 8 copies on vellum, from an edition limited to 133, this copy for Dr.Gaston Roussel, printed in gold and black in Caslon Elzevir by Maurice Darantière, bound in cream morocco, by Henri Creuzevault, covers with deep parallel wavy lines in blind, spine titled in gilt, g.e., linen doublures and flyleaves, original wrappers printed in gold bound in, signed at foot of front turn-in, spine lightly browned, brown morocco-backed card chemise, spine a little faded, board slip-case (rubbed), 4to, 300 x 250mm., [Paris], Les Éditions du Raisin, 1935.
est. £1500 – £2000
A glorious example of ‘“typographie pure”, matched only by Louis Jou’s Sonnets pour Hélène, 1927 (lot 127), Léon Pichon’s Patriotisme et Endurance, 1929 (lot 135), Jan van Krimpen’s Poèmes d’Émile Verhaeren, 1930 (lot 153), Alberto Tallone’s Vita Nouva, 1933 (lot 138) and John Johnson’s Descartes, 1934 (lot 142).