FRANCE (Anatole) and COLIN (Paul Émile). Les Travaux et les - Lot 150

FRANCE (Anatole) and COLIN (Paul Émile). Les Travaux et les jours d'Hésiode. New translation by Paul Mazon. Followed by La Terre et les Hommes. A very fine copy from the library of Auguste-Pierre Garnier, in an elegant binding by Klein. Paris, Éditions d'Art Édouard Pelletan, 1912. In-4 (210x280 mm), brown morocco, ribbed spine filleted and framed in cold, triple gilt fillet framing the entrenerfs and sides, double gilt fillet on the edges, inner border in the same morocco echoing the decoration on the sides and signed "R.D. Klein" in the leather, marbled paper lining and endpapers, gilt edges, covers and spine preserved (Klein). 224 pages and 4 ff.n.ch. (subscription prospectus), 114 original woodcuts by Paul-Emile Colin, printed in black, including 7 hors-texte, and 90 woodcut vignettes, lettering and decorative bands in color. Running title in red, text in Greek with French translation opposite. Very slight rubbing to spines and corners. First edition of Paul Mazon's translation, presented alongside the Greek text, decorated with 114 original woodcuts by Paul-Emile Colin, printed in black, including 7 hors-texte, and 90 color woodcut vignettes, lettrines and decorative bands. This book by Anatole France is a collection of excerpts from various works, mainly La Vie littéraire and Le Jardin d'Épicure. It is the last work published by Édouard Pelletan. Limited edition of 375 copies, one of 339 on Vélin à la cuve des papeteries du Marais (N°96), enriched with the illustrated subscription prospectus (4 ff. bound in-fine). From the library of French poet and publisher Auguste-Pierre Garnier (1885-1966), with his bookplate vignette on the first white endpaper.