[Rarebooks] FS: Homer. The Odyssey. Translated by T.E. Lawrence

[Nina W. Matheson]

Greetings,
    We are pleased to offer for consideration:


Homer. The Odyssey of Homer. [Translated by T. E. Lawrence]. [London, 
Printed and published by Sir Emery Walker, Wilfred Merton and Bruce Rogers] 
1932. Original black morocco. The handsome leather is susceptible to 
rubbing and marking but this copy is fine in a near fine publisher's box 
rubbed at the joints and edges. The work of Bruce Rogers 380. One of 530 
copies. Chosen by John M. Crawford, Jr. for BR Today ("Designs adapted from 
Greek vase paintings were printed black on gold roundels in a complicate 
procedure requiring seven operations in all" with "brilliant results"). One 
of the thirty books Bruce Rogers judged to be "successful" in a comment on 
his work reprinted in Paragraphs on Printing. The first page of the text is 
reproduced in Joseph Blumenthal's The Art of the Printed Book 1455-1955. 
Item 32 in the recent Grolier Club publication, A Century for a Century, an 
exhibition of some of the most beautiful, finely printed books produced 
during the Twentieth Century.
Book # 65606.              $3000.00

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