From Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
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About this Item
Quarto (26 x 18.5cm). Traduction de Messire J. Amyot. Editee et corrigee par Paul-Louis Courier, with 26 illustrations drawn & cut on wood by Gwendolen Raverat. pp. [4] + iv + 164. One of 290 copies on paper published at six guineas, printed in Ptolemy type with marginal notes in red. The initials are filled in by hand in blue by Graily Hewitt and his assistants. Bound in publisher's 1/4 vellum, gilt, with the board corners vellum-tipped. An excellent copy with the bookplate of Alfred Fairbank CBE, calligrapher & palaeographer. In the publisher's slip-case, which is a little scuffed & rubbed, but sound. VG. [Bib. Ash. Press XXXIX; Franklin & Turner 224; Brown 9; Newman & Steel 45; Peppin & Micklethwait 245; Horne 361]. Seller Inventory # 10233
Bibliographic Details
Title: Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe.
Publisher: Chelsea: Ashendene Press
Publication Date: 1933
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