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MAILLOL, ARISTIDE] VERGILIUS MARO, PUBLIUS. Les Eglogues de Virgile. . (Weimar: Cranach Presse, 1926). One of 250 copies on Monval papier de chanvre with the Maillol-Kessler watermark. Later tan morocco in slipcase, original wrappers bound in. 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches (32 x 24 cm); [3] ff., 110, [6] pp., 1 f., illustrated throughout with wood-engravings by Aristide Maillol Occasional light foxing; Together with Together with three private press and illustrated books, including the Shakespeare Head Press Boccacio, Peter Koch's The Homer Fragments and Frank Brangwyn's Windmills, one of 75 copies. A superb specimen of the typography of the Cranach Press, with initials designed by Eric Gill accompanying the Maillol woodcuts. Artist and the Book 172; Rauch 138; Skira 212. C