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(BINDINGS - ALLIX). (ARTIST'S BOOKS). LONGUS SUSAN ALLIX, Book ArtistABAA

DAPHNIS AND CHLOE

réf. ST16989London: Willow Press 1982. No. 31 OF 55 COPIES SIGNED by artist and binder Susan Allix. 300 x 230 mm. 12 x 9". 4 p.l. 91 1 pp. 1 leaf colophon. Translated by A. M. Burnett. WHIMSICAL PICTORIAL MOROCCO BY SUSAN ALLIX stamp-signed on rear pastedown the wrap-around design showing Daphnis and Chloe in blind-tooled brown morocco silhouetted against a blue morocco sea and cream morocco sky beneath the lovers a blind-tooled vine with 11 inlaid or onlaid citron morocco leaves blind-stamped lettering to front cover turquoise blue pastedowns and white free endpapers painted with blue fore edge of front free endpaper cut into wave pattern showing a glimpse of the yellow handmade paper front flyleaf edges untrimmed and lightly brushed with blue paint. In the original felt-lined tan linen clamshell box blind-lettered cream and blue morocco label on back. With etched frontispiece and 20 etchings 14 in color and six in sepia by Allix. As new. This is a modern take on the most popular romance of ancient Greece from book artist Susan Allix who is responsible for the binding illustrations and the printing through her Willow Press imprint. The third century pastoral romance was newly translated from the Greek by Andrew M. Burnett and illustrated with etchings based on Allix's travels in Greece. The binding in Allix's words "creates an atmosphere of the sea landscape and figures in the story." Born in 1943 and educated at the Royal College of Art Allix began her career as a printmaker before creating her first hand-crafted book in 1973. Mark Dimunation Chief of the Rare Book Division at the Library of Congress wrote of Allix's work: "her books launch you on a visual journey. Each book is a voyage propelled by color texture image impression and material. . . . Because she insists on creating the entire book--from letterpress to illustration to binding--her work has a certain recognizable aesthetic; a malleable signature that responds to the particular character of a piece but is still unquestionably hers. Allix conceives each book visually. 'I am concerned with visual things so I see books as full of colour and form in a pictorial sense as well as through the images created in my mind by the words and through the sculptural qualities a book possesses.' The real narrative of her books is the flow of color and image as they move throughout the piece.". Willow Press unknown books

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis5 720,00 $US≈ 5 100,31 €

(BINDINGS - HACCIUS). MAILLOL, ARISTIDE, Illustrator LONGUSABAA

LES PASTORALES DE LONGUS OU DAPHNIS ET CHLOÉ

1937réf. ST11995Paris: Les Frères Gonin 1937. No. CXXV OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST this is one of the hors commerce copies with an additional suite of plates. 219 x 149 mm. 8 5/8 x 5 7/8". 2 217 5 pp. One volume and one portfolio. Translated by Jacques Amyot. MOST ATTRACTIVE BEIGE CRUSHED MOROCCO BY IRMGARD HACCIUS stamp-signed "I. H." in gilt on rear cover front cover with gilt titling arranged in 10 short descending rows surrounded by blind-tooled leaves and grasses rear cover with three-inch column of blind-tooled leaves bearing gilt berries and the binder's initials flat spine with titling in blind top edge gilt. Housed with the portfolio of plates in its original printed paper wrapper in a matching marbled paper folding box with beige morocco spine and edges no doubt done by Haccius as well. WITH 47 WOODCUTS BY ARISTIDE MAILLOL depicting scenes from the text AND WITH AN EXTRA SUITE OF 48 PLATES printed in sanguine the additional plate bearing the 15 woodcut initials used in the text. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of German bibliophile and music publisher Ludwig Strecker. The Artist and the Book 174. ◆A SPLENDID COPY clean and bright in a luxurious unworn binding. This version of Longus' charming Greek pastoral novel of awakening love long retained its popularity and was published frequently often with illustrations. And perhaps the chief virtue of the present edition is the unaffected sometimes mischievous woodcuts of nymphs and lovers by the French-Catalan artist Aristide Maillol 1861-1944 best known for his sculpture. His engravings here have the same classical lines that typify his three-dimensional works. According to "The Artist and the Book" the work is "perhaps the most harmonious of Maillol's illustrated books." The very attractive and intelligent binding is by Mainz master bookbinder Irmgard Haccius 1916-2003 whose work here is entirely in keeping with the illustrator's graceful simplicity. Haccius studied at the art academies in Munich and Berlin in addition to completing advanced training in book binding at the Academy of Fine Arts at Castle Giebenstein Hall. She was one of the first faculty members at the State University Institute for Art and Handicraft in Mainz before joining Johannes Gutenberg University in 1973 as a professor in the Department of Visual Arts. Les Frères Gonin unknown books

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis8 840,00 $US≈ 7 882,30 €

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