[Rarebooks] FS: ERINNA TO BAUCIS, #32 of 300 printed by hand on handmade paper

[Charles Agvent]

ERINNA. ERINNA TO BAUCIS With an Epigram by Antipater of Sidon. New 
York: Privately Printed, 1978. First Edition. Two folio sheets folded 
into fours, 7-3/4" x 10-1/2", printing the papyrus fragment of the poem 
along with a full-page commentary by Marylin B. Arthur who did the 
translation along with Daniel Haberman. Drawing by Cornelia Brendel 
Foss. Copy #32 of 300 printed by hand on handmade paper and SIGNED by 
Haberman. This copy also INSCRIBED by Haberman to R'Lene Dahlberg, wife 
of Edward Dahlberg. Fine.

Erinna was an ancient Greek poet, possibly a contemporary of Sappho. She 
is best known for her long poem, the DISTAFF, a three-hundred line 
hexameter lament for her childhood friend Baucis, who had died shortly 
after marriage. This fragment comes from that poem. (#019417)        $100

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