LAMBERT (André)

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LAMBERT (André)
Veterum Latinorum [...]. An anthology of Latin lyrics. Selection, translation, ornaments and images by André Lambert, all engraved with etching by the same. Paris, L'Estampe moderne, 1920. In-4, 59 ff.n.ch.: lilac morocco, geometrical decoration drawn by two large broken borders decorated with multiple gilt fillets, passing over the spine and continuing on the back plates, on the first title plate in capitals struck in gold and black on three lines, smooth spine bearing the gilt title, lining and endpapers of blue silk woven of silver threads, untrimmed, case (Pierre Legrain). Edition of 370 copies: this one on laid paper dyed in the shape of Arches paper mills, numbered and signed in pencil by the author. The illustration, by André Lambert, includes 53 colour compositions, 11 of which are full-page, and 110 text frames, different for each poem. The book contains a selection and translation of Latin classics (Catullus, Horace, Petronius, Ovid, Martial, etc.), entirely engraved on copper and printed on both sides, with the translation facing the poems. Superb binding with geometric decoration by Pierre Legrain. It was made in 1925 for G. Morin-Pons, among the ten that this amateur ordered from Legrain. The latter, who died in 1929 at the age of forty, is the founder of the creative bookbinding of our time. The decoration was reproduced in the magazine l'Art vivant in May 1931. (Répertoire Pierre Legrain, 1965, nº 548.)
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