[GIRALDON (Adolphe)] - VIRGILE. The Eglogues. Paris:... - Lot 86 - Ader

[GIRALDON (Adolphe)] - VIRGILE. The Eglogues. Paris: Eugène Plon, Adolphe Nourrit et Cie, 1906. - In-folio tellière, 326 x 218 : (6 ff.), 65 pp., (3 ff. last blank), illustrated cover. Dark blue morocco, flats decorated with mulberry and gold mulberry leaves and mosaic of pink, burgundy, brown, dark green, grey and black morocco, spine ribbed with brown morocco mosaic leaves, dark blue morocco frame inside decorated with gold fillets and flowers, brocaded silk linings and endpapers, double endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, preserved cover, case (René Kieffer). Eric Busser, Adolphe Giraldon, an artist of the book, pp. 77-98 This is certainly one of the most beautiful publications made at the beginning of the 20th century, entirely designed and illustrated by the painter and illustrator Adolphe Giraldon (1855-1933), and printed using the typefaces he had designed, melted down by Deberny and company . Each page is provided with an illustration or ornament. For example, there is a frame with ivy leaves at the justification, a title-frontispiece, a medallion portrait of Virgil in profile at the head of the preface, 10 false titles, 10 culs-de-lampe, 10 beautiful idyllic coloured landscapes at the head of each section, 5 fleurons and 46 two-tone frames, different according to the section, decorated with plants, objects and symbols evoked by Virgil. The engravings were entrusted to Frédéric Florian, but, as a victim of hemiplegia, he was unable to finish the work and it was his brother Ernest who continued the work he had begun. The preface is by the academician Émile Gebhart and the Latin text was drawn up by Henri Goelzer, professor at the University of Paris. The edition was printed in 336 copies, 35 of which are not mentioned in the justification. This is one of 280 numbered copies on paper in the form of the Arches mills, superbly bound by René Kieffer. Slightly rubbed with nerves. P