[Book binding] Ovide. Lettres d'Amoureuses. Les Héroïdes. Paris. 1914

Illustrated book binding by master binder René Kieffer. Signed on inside front cover. Beautiful brown morocco binding with broad veins, richly, blind-stamped, decorated. Gilt-stamped title on spine, inside front and back cover covered with silk with classical scenes and leaf motif. Numbered copy: 229 on vellum Blanchet-Kléber.

4to., 159 p. endpapers of marbled paper, illustrated title page in colour; in a translation by G. Miroux with illustrations by Manuel Orazi. Collection éclectique, Aug. Blaizot, René Kieffer, Paris, 1914. German description pasted on inside leaf. Tiny rub bottom front cover.