Author: VILLON, Francois
Title: The Lyrics of Francois Villon
Description: Croton Falls, NY, The Limited Editions Club, 1933. Hardcover. Translations by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Ernest Henley, John Payne and Léonie Adams. Introduction by Léonie Adams. Woodblocks cut by Howard Simon. 4to. Top edge gilt. Tan cloth with gilt-lettered calf spine label. 103pp. Numerous two-tone full-page plates. Near fine. Lacks slipcase. Handsome, tight copy of the seventh title in the LEC's fourth series, with Adams introducing noted translations of verse by the fabled 15th century French poet. Colophon at rear notes limitation of 1500 numbered copies (this #463) signed by Howard Simon. Delightfully, this copy bears on inner flyleaf the large custom bookplate of the compiler of the 1989 "Great and Good Books: A Bibliographical Catalogue of The Limited Editions Club, 1929-1985" -- Ralph G. Newman (1911-98), a Lincoln-theme plate etched by the great Bernhardt Wall. NEWMAN 43. .

Keywords: Poetry


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