Ode to Sleep. Translated from the Latin into English verse by Richard Stanton Lambert.

Oblong 12mo: [20] pp.

Original linenbacked boards, glassine wr. (minor foxing to boards). Very fine copy, with extra red title label tipped in at the end.

Rare hand-printed book, limited to edition of 90 copies. Lambert (1894-1981) was a biographer, historian and broadcaster. Together with his wife Kate Elinor Lambert, talented artist and wood engraver, they established the Stanton Press in 1921 producing 8 fine, hand-printed volumes of poetry and translations. The Press closed in 1924 when Lambert took up a full-time post as a tutor for the University of London. Ref. R.S. Lambert “The Stanton Press: A Retrospect” in Private Library Journal, 2nd Ser., 4:2 (1971). - W. Ransom (Private presses) 426. Prov. Rainforth Armitage Walker (1886-1960) (bookpl. (woman with a cello) by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), from his illustrations for “Le Morte d'Arthur”).