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Title

Erga kai hēmerai = Les travaux et les jours d'Hésiode / traduction nouvelle de Paul Mazon. Suivis de La terre et l'homme / par Anatole France ; décorés de cent quatorze bois originaux de Paul Emile Colin.

Author

Hesiod

Publication

Paris : Editions d'art Edouard Pelletan, 1912 [i.e. 1913]

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Details

Additional Authors

• France, Anatole, 1844-1924
• Colin, Paul-Emile, 1867-
• Mazon, Paul, 1874-1955
• Aussourd, René.

Description

224, [3] p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Uniform Title

Works and days. French & Greek

Alternative Title

• Works and days.
• Travaux et les jours d'Hésiode.

Subject

Mosaic bindings > Specimens

Note

• Greek title romanized.
• "Cette édition ... a été achevée d'imprimer ... le 31 janvier 1913"--Colophon. "Paraitra le 25 février 1913"--Clément-Janin, p. [69].
• Greek text of Works and days and French prose translation on opposite pages, p. 12-[105].
• Printed in red and black with 9 vignettes printed in brown and ornaments chiefly printed in gray-green or gray-green and brown.
• Illustrations in text: 97 prints : wood engraving, chiefly b&w ; full-page (7) and image 12 x 13 cm. or smaller. For list, cf. "Table des matières et des gravures," p. 217-[225]. -- The remaining 17 cuts (cf. t.p.) comprise 6 ornaments and vignettes on t.p. (one repeated, inverted), repeated on front cover; 5 on other preliminaries and back cover; and 6 small ornaments incorporated in running titles and at foot of text throughout.

Indexed In (note)

• Carteret, L. Trésor, 1875-1945
• Mahé, R. Livres de luxe
• Artist and the book
• Clément-Janin, N. Colin

Local note

• 405 copies (of which 375 were offered for sale) and 25 suites of artist's proofs of the ill. printed by the Imprimerie nationale. No. 307 of 339 (numbered 37-375) in small 4to format on Marais wove paper watermarked with Pelletan's Greek motto. Cf. p. [1]; colophon, p. [227]; Clément-Janin, p. [69]; prospectus, p. [8].
• With: [Suite of artist's proofs of the illustrations / Paul-Emile Colin] [Paris : Editions d'art Edouard Pelletan, 1913] 115 prints on 104 leaves : wood engraving, chiefly b&w ; 28 cm. One of 15 separately issued suites on China paper; cf. Clément-Janin, p. [69]. One cut is repeated (inverted) -- [Prospectus / with text by N. Clément-Janin] [8] p. : ill. Bound together subsequent to publication.
• Binding, by René Aussourd, of half brown morocco and marbled paper boards; spine gilt and tooled in black, with inlays in several colors. Original paper covers and backstrip bound in.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1913 88-38

OCLC

NYPG88-B65573

Author

Hesiod.

Title

Erga kai hēmerai = Les travaux et les jours d'Hésiode / traduction nouvelle de Paul Mazon. Suivis de La terre et l'homme / par Anatole France ; décorés de cent quatorze bois originaux de Paul Emile Colin.

Imprint

Paris : Editions d'art Edouard Pelletan, 1912 [i.e. 1913]

Indexed In:

Carteret, L. Trésor, 1875-1945, IV, 202

Mahé, R. Livres de luxe, II, 384-385

Artist and the book, 51

Clément-Janin, N. Colin, 129; p. [69]

Local Note

405 copies (of which 375 were offered for sale) and 25 suites of artist's proofs of the ill. printed by the Imprimerie nationale. No. 307 of 339 (numbered 37-375) in small 4to format on Marais wove paper watermarked with Pelletan's Greek motto. Cf. p. [1]; colophon, p. [227]; Clément-Janin, p. [69]; prospectus, p. [8].

With: [Suite of artist's proofs of the illustrations / Paul-Emile Colin] [Paris : Editions d'art Edouard Pelletan, 1913] 115 prints on 104 leaves : wood engraving, chiefly b&w ; 28 cm. One of 15 separately issued suites on China paper; cf. Clément-Janin, p. [69]. One cut is repeated (inverted) -- [Prospectus / with text by N. Clément-Janin] [8] p. : ill. Bound together subsequent to publication.

Binding, by René Aussourd, of half brown morocco and marbled paper boards; spine gilt and tooled in black, with inlays in several colors. Original paper covers and backstrip bound in.

Added Author

France, Anatole, 1844-1924. Terre et l'homme. 1913.

Colin, Paul-Emile, 1867-

Mazon, Paul, 1874-1955.

Aussourd, René.

Added Title

Travaux et les jours d'Hésiode.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. French 1913 88-38