Christie’s roundel
Lot 398

EURIPIDES. Euripide. Traduction nouvelle. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1884. 2 volumes, 8° (254 x 161mm). Half-titles, titles in red and black, coloured frontispiece by Louis Edward Fournier in each volume, 3 plates by D. Maillard. Crimson morocco by Canape, supralibros on sides, spine lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins, silk endpapers, original printed wrappers bound-in, gilt edges, partly uncut, slipcases. ONE OF 40 COPIES on 'papier de Hollande', number 27 in an overall limitation of 55.

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EURIPIDES. Euripide. Traduction nouvelle. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1884. 2 volumes, 8° (254 x 161mm). Half-titles, titles in red and black, coloured frontispiece by Louis Edward Fournier in each volume, 3 plates by D. Maillard. Crimson morocco by Canape, supralibros on sides, spine lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins, silk endpapers, original printed wrappers bound-in, gilt edges, partly uncut, slipcases. ONE OF 40 COPIES on 'papier de Hollande', number 27 in an overall limitation of 55.

With 6 other classical translations in 10 volumes, including: Odes d'Anacreon avec LIV compositions par Girodet. Paris: 1864. Red morocco by Smeers; Les oeuvres de Horace. Paris: 1865. Red morocco by Smeers. Copy no. 70; Sophocle. Paris: 1877. Red half morocco by Canape. Number 10 of 40 copies on 'papier Hollande'. (12)