Price: £60
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1919
Stock Number: 69845
Duncan (Raymond)
Theokritos.
Conférence pastorale par Raymond Duncan à l'Université philosophique, Paris, le neuf février 1919.
Description: FIRST EDITION, woodcut illustration to title-page, two further full-page woodcuts, woodcut tail-piece and vignette at rear, the paper a little browned, pp. [32], crown 8vo, original sewn buff wrappers printed in red and black with woodcut to front (repeating the vignette at rear of text), splitting along spine but holding, edges untrimmed, fairPublication Details: Paris: Imprimé à l'Oeuvre Raymond Duncan, 1919
Notes: With the author's signature on a card laid in at front with a clipped obituary and a photograph of the same. Scarce. Printed in the Greek-inspired typeface of Duncan's own design, the text a lecture on the Greek pastoral poet as a model for the author's own philosophy. Duncan was an eccentric artistic polymath, amongst other things a dancer like his sister Isadora Duncan - he lived a bohemian lifestyle in the heart of Saint-Germain, where he established an Akademia.
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