Picasso (Pablo).- Ovid. Les Metamorphoses, one of 95 copies on Arches laid, from an edition of 145 copies signed by the artist, signed by Picasso in pencil to half-title verso, 30 etchings by Picasso, of which 15 loose as plates and 15 within text, unsigned, initials in red throughout, a very few scattered and faint spots or a tiny amount of browning to very edges of a few ff., loose as issued, original printed wrappers and glassine jacket, edges uncut, within original chemise, scattered spots to verso, light abrasions to corners (likely due to tight slip-case), original slipcase, a few light abrasions and marks, [Cramer, Pablo Picasso The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonné (1983), 19; Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 (1961), 224], 4to, Lausanne, Albert Skira, 1931.

⁂ The first of Picasso's major illustrated books.