VILLON, Francois

THE LYRICS OF FRANCOIS VILLON

Croton Falls, NY: Limited Editions Club, 1933. Howard Simon. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") bound in brown buckram, 136 pages. Done into English verse by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Ernest Henley, John Payne and Leonie Adams. With an Introduction by Leonie Adams. Hand-set type and hand-printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press. Illustrated with thirty woodcuts in two colors by Howard Simon. Copy #164 of 1500 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. A superb example of Hand Press Printing. Small remnant of bookplate on front endpaper, otherwise Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Item #021621

Price: $125.00