No. 94277684
![Signé ; Clara Tice / Pierre Louÿs - The Twilight of the Nymphs [avec envoi et dessin original] - 1927](https://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2025/3/12/1/2/4/12464fc3-6d14-4851-894e-a3f7727d0ac5.jpg)
Signé ; Clara Tice / Pierre Louÿs - The Twilight of the Nymphs [avec envoi et dessin original] - 1927
No. 94277684
![Signé ; Clara Tice / Pierre Louÿs - The Twilight of the Nymphs [avec envoi et dessin original] - 1927](https://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2025/3/12/1/2/4/12464fc3-6d14-4851-894e-a3f7727d0ac5.jpg)
Signé ; Clara Tice / Pierre Louÿs - The Twilight of the Nymphs [avec envoi et dessin original] - 1927
A charming illustrated English edition of this collection of erotic short stories by Pierre Louÿs, originally published in French in 1925, featuring a color frontispiece enhanced with gold and 27 color plates by Clara Tice (some enhanced with gold or silver). Collated and complete.
Copy enriched with a signed dedication from the illustrator: "To Helen" accompanied by a small drawing (naked woman) on the half-title.
Limited edition, 1,250 copies, this one unnumbered.
Like much of Louÿs's work, this collection of short stories is "a graceful blend of license and erudition" and a subject always popular with book illustrators (Harvey & Heseltine, 426)
This edition features a frontispiece and 27 plates by American artist Clara Tice, an iconic feminist figure, "known for her elegant line drawings of female nudes, butterflies, and dogs," as well as for her contributions to Vanity Fair and underground magazines like Rouge (Barnet, All-Night Party, xvii).
"Her images of women, gracefully refined and often daring, exalt Aubrey Beardsley" (New York Times).
Copy preserved in its original cream canvas binding.
Condition: small brown stains on the second cover, first hinge split lengthwise (play), 18 loose boards.
Signed; Clara Tice / Pierre Louÿs
The Twilight of the Nymphs
Privately Printed for the Pierre Louÿs Society, 1927
in-8 (25 x 16.5 cm); 235pp.
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