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Le livre de Tobie / traduit sur la Vulgate par Le Maistre de Sacy ; avec une préface de l'abbé Jean-Pierre Altermann ; illustrations de Maurice Denis ; gravées sur bois par Jacques Beltrand.

Accession number
PML 141839
Published
Paris : [Jacques Beltrand], 1929.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Translation of the apocryphal Book of Tobit by Le Maistre de Sacy.
Illustrated with 29 color wood engravings by Jacques Beltrand after drawings by Maurice Denis.
"Le livre de Tobie a été tiré sur les presses ... de Jacques Beltrand"--Colophon.
Ed. of 200 copies.
Library has copy no. 10 of 25 copies accompanied by a suite of 112 impressions from the blocks for the color wood engravings, including some decomposition proofs, bound in following text and preceded by a cover leaf inscribed "Suite 11/25" and signed by the engraver.
Description
vii, 50 p. : col. ill. (wood engraving) ; 38 x 28 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
1/2 brown morocco by Georges Cretté, in slipcase, original wrappers bound in.
Classification
Department