The most pleasant and delectable tale of the marriage of Cupid and Psyche / done into English by William Adlington of University College in Oxford ; with a discourse on the fable by Andrew Lang, late of Merton College in Oxford.

Accession number

PML 125961

Creator

Apuleius.

Published

London : Published by David Nutt, in the Strand, 1887.

Credit line

Bequest; Robert D. Brewster; 1995.

Notes

Title vignette.
Head-piece; tail-piece.
Half-title: Cupid and Psyche.
Printed marginalia.
Limited edition. Five hundred and fifty copies of this edition have been printed, five hundred of which are for sale.
"J.A. Symonds from A Lang"--Written in ink on front free endpaper.

Description

[4], lxxxvi, [4], 65, [3] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Provenance

Bookplate of John Addington Symonds; from the library of Robert D. Brewster.

Classification

Book

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Printed Books