[Rarebooks] FS: A lovely edition of THE PASTORAL LOVES OF DAPHNIS AND CHLOE
Charles Agvent
chagvent at ptd.net
Sun Aug 12 16:56:43 EDT 2012
One of hundreds of titles from the Limited Editions Club in our
inventory. Within a week or so we will be posting on our home page a
collection that includes a number of titles still in their original
shipping boxes, as well as presentation and publisher's copies,
portfolios of signed prints, and pieces of original art for the book,
including in some cases the entire set of original drawings and even
unused pieces.
LONGUS. THE PASTORAL LOVES OF DAPHNIS AND CHLOE. New York: Limited
Editions Club, 1934. Quarto (8" x 11-1/4") bound in full natural
lambskin, goldstamped with a gold embossed medallion on the front cover.
Translated and introduced by George Moore. Designed and printed on a
hand-press by Porter Garnett in Pittsburgh. Copy #743 of 1500
illustrated with etchings by Ruth Reeves and SIGNED by the artist on the
colophon page. Some rubbing to the spine tips. Still Fine in a lightly
soiled slipcase. A beautiful example of this fragile binding.
(#010168) $200.00
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