[ARTIST’S BOOKS]. PICASSO, Pablo (1881–1973), illustrator. –– ARISTOPHANES. Lysistrata. Translated and with an introduction by Gilbert Seddes. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1934.

4to. Printed in red and black, 6 etchings after Pablo Picasso. Original color pictorial boards with printed wraparound cover label (spine a touch sunned); original blue paper–covered chemise (spine sunned); lacking slipcase.

LIMITED EDITION, number 828 of 1500 copies SIGNED BY PABLO PICASSO on the colophon. “The only American publication with original Picasso etchings” (The Artist and the Book) and one of only three classical literature texts illustrated by Picasso. George Macy considered this to be one of the finest editions printed by the Limited Editions Club. LEC Bibliography 57; The Artist and the Book 226; Goeppert 24; The American Livre de Peintre 39.