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[BINDINGS]. DEVILLERS, Charles. Les Ghazels de Hafiz. -- ARNOUX, Alexandre. Romancero Moresque. -- [And 3 others]. Paris: L'Édition d'Art H. Piazza, [1922-1930]. Various editions.
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[BINDINGS]. DEVILLERS, Charles. Les Ghazels de Hafiz. -- ARNOUX, Alexandre, translator. Romancero Moresque. -- KALIDASA. Sakountala. -- KHAYYAM, Omar. Robaiyat. -- LUCIEN of Samosata. Scènes de Courtisanes. Paris: L'Édition d'Art H. Piazza, [1922], [1921], [1922], [1925], [1930].
Together, 5 volumes, 16mo (152 x 104 mm). Color-printed frontpieces by Léon Carré, Edmund Dulac, A. Touchet, Paul Zenker, and Mario Laboccetta, text in various colors. Similarly bound in 20th-century half morocco in various colors, marbled boards, spines with raised bands gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, original printed wrappers all bound neatly in, ALL STAMP-SIGNED BY BENNETT (very slight wear to extremities).
Various later editions. Most volumes are from the "Collection 'Ex Oriente Lux.'" A series of masterpieces by authors from different cultures translated into French from the original Arabic, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Japanese, Persian, or Sanskrit.
Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio