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Virgil.
Virgile les Géorgiques: texte latin et version française de l'abbé Jacques Delille, gravures sur bois d'Aristide Maillol. Paris: P. Gonin, éditeur, 1937-1943 [i.e. 1950].
Reproduced by permission of Françoise Gonin, Editions d'Art Pierre Gonin, Lausanne, Switzerland |
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Virgil.
Les Géorgiques.
Paris: P. Gonin, éditeur, 1937-1943 -[i.e. 1950].
Acquired through the Classics and -Kenyon Law Starling Funds.
This lavish production, one of 750 copies, features Virgil's Georgics in French and Latin on facing pages. The woodblock illustrations were done from drawings by the sculptor Aristide Maillol, who began the designs in 1908. Harry Graf von Kessler intended to publish Maillol's Virgil as a companion piece to Kessler's much-admired Eclogues of Virgil, the first book published at Kessler's famous Cranach Press. This plan was never fulfilled, but in 1937 Philippe Gonin, a Paris publisher of fine and elegant books, urged Maillol to resume his design work on this edition of Virgil, and the last design was delivered in 1944, shortly before Maillol's death.
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