BINDINGS - Lucien de Samosate: Dialogue des courtisanes. Ch - Lot 219

BINDINGS - Lucien de Samosate: Dialogue des courtisanes. Chamontin, s.d. (14936) Large in-8 full brown morocco, ribbed spine, boards decorated with 4 horizontal bands of gilt and cold-stamped fillets framed with gilt Greek, gilt head, cons. cover (Carel). tiny scratch at top of spine. This edition of a new translation by the publisher, in a strictly limited and justified edition, is illustrated with 10 slightly erotic compositions by Édouard Chimot, reproduced in hors-texte and stenciled in the workshops of Edmond Vairel, illuminator in Paris. 1/160 copies of the first edition on Arches containing an unpublished drypoint and all the illustrations in two states, one of which is on Japon. Some light foxing. A very well-bound copy.