VALÉRY (Paul) and VILLON (Jacques). Les Bucoliques de Virgil - Lot 291

VALÉRY (Paul) and VILLON (Jacques). Les Bucoliques de Virgile. Original color lithographs by Jacques Villon. A remarkable copy with two signed original lithographs by Jacques Villon, in a splendid mosaic binding by Lucie Weill. Paris, Scripta et Picta, 1953. In-folio (290x380 mm), red grosgrain morocco, smooth spine adorned with long gilt title, boards decorated with a large mosaic composition in multicolored morocco (violet, green, water green, yellow ochre, orange) in a cold decoration of multiple parallel or squared fillets, inner border in the same morocco with the signature "Lucie Weill", orange suede lining and endpapers, gilt edges on witnesses, covers and spine preserved, half morocco band folder, lined slipcase (Lucie Weill). XXX and 126 pages, 25 original compositions by painter Jacques Villon (24 in color and one in black), including 20 double-page color lithographs. First edition of Paul Valéry's translation of the Latin text, illustrated with 25 original compositions by painter Jacques Villon (1875-1963), including 20 double-page color lithographs. The artist drew the images on colored stone, engraving each color on a different stone in his own hand, using a total of 320 different stones. Limited edition of 269 copies, this one of 245 on Vélin d'Arches (N°100). A precious copy with two original lithographs signed by Jacques Villon, corresponding to the illustration on page XXX, one in black (N°21/25) and one in color (N°22/25). Beautiful binding signed by Lucie Weill.