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Vergil.Églogues,1/22+add.pls,Crette b'g,Cranach

translated by Marc Lafargue, number XXII of XXXVI copies on Kessler-Maillol silk rag paper and with 2 additional suites of the woodcuts on Japon (one printed in red, one in black), from an edition limited to 292, text in Latin and French, designed by Harry Kessler, printed in type modelled on Nicolas Jenson's Venetian Antiqua of 1470 and cut on punches by Edward Prince, colophon in italic by Edward Johnston, title and initials designed and cut by Eric Gill with ornaments of letters designed and cut by Aristide Maillol, 43 woodcut illustrations by Maillol, additional suites bound at end, the first woodcut of the suite in red initialled in pencil by Maillol, occasional light spotting, bound in pink calf, by Georges Cretté, tooled with swirling intersecting lines in gilt across both boards and spine, spine titled in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, brown moiré silk doublures and flyleaves, original printed wrappers bound in, signed "G.Cretté succ. de Marius Michel" at foot of front turn-in, edges of flyleaves slightly faded, calf-backed card chemise, board slip-case (very slightly rubbed at edges), 4to, 325 x 240mm., Weimar, Cranach Press, 1926.

***The colophon calls for only one additional suite for the 36 copies on silk rag but there was obviously a change of plan; the upper wrapper for the additional plates describes two suites. The binding is described and reproduced in the Catalogue des Reliures de Georges Cretté, Toulouse, Arts et Formes, 1984, no.613..