Editore: Oxford Basil Blackwell 1923, 1923
Da: Christian White Rare Books Ltd, Ilkley, YORKS, Regno Unito
EUR 29,76
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloCondizione: Fine. A promotional brochure for a new limited edition published by subscription of William Caxton's 1480 translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, from the unique manuscript in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Fine along with the uncompleted order form. Fine Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.
Editore: Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Publisher to the Shakespeare Head Press, 1924, 1924
Da: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, Regno Unito
EUR 178,54
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrello[Roman Mythology] LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (31 x 20cm), pp.[4] xl; 189 [7]. Number 284 of 375 copies thus, letter-press printed on on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper. Publisher's oatmeal quarter cloth, with grey paper over boards, and printed paper title labels to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. Internally crisp and clean, but for a tiny black ink ownership to the front pastedown, dated 1937. Spine toned, with some peeling to label, and moderate general wear and bumping to boards. Minor worming to joints / hinges. Very good. Ovid's classic history of Gods and Men, here translated by William Caxon in 1480. Sadly only these six books of the original manuscript survived, collected by Samuel Pepys and bound in his personal brown sheepskin.