HERMANN PAUL, René Georges, and LEMAISTRE DE SACY. Genesis. - Lot 200

HERMANN PAUL, René Georges, and LEMAISTRE DE SACY. Genesis. Liber Genesis, chapters one, two, and three. Text from the Vulgate and French translation by Le Maistre de Sacy, printed by Léon Pichon in Paris. Paris, Léon Pichon, 1921. Folio, paperback; black embossed cover adorned with the title in gold Hebrew lettering. 61 pp., 32 woodcuts, including 29 half-page illustrations and 3 two-tone initials. Spine cracked with losses and detachments; the thread binding the quires has broken several times; paper missing from half of the side flap of the front cover. First print of these 32 woodcuts with white lines by Hermann Paul (1864–1940), including three two-tone initials. Limited edition of 480 copies initialed by the publisher; this copy is one of 430 hand-numbered copies on Arches handmade laid paper (no. 98). Pleasant illustrations in very good condition.