Ventes live - Lot 152
[UK - Nonesuch Press]
Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek.
Soho, The Nonesuch Press, 1923
€ 150 / 200
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Description du lot
8vo (some spotting at sides).
Quarter vellum, gold paper on boards (somewhat rubbed at extremeties). Wide-margined, uncut copy.
Edition limited to 725 copies (n. 489) on Perusia hand-made paper, printed at the Pelican Press in Garamond type. Reprint with some alterations in the spelling and punctuation from the edition of 1681. Ill. with 7 original engravings (title, 4 full-page: Cupid, Bathyllus, Europa, & Venus, a head- and tailpiece) by Stephen Gooden.
Ref. Ransom, p. 365, n. 11. - Tomkinson, Bibliography of modern presses, p. 134, n. 11.