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 151526
Author: 
Apuleius.
Published: 
London : Published by David Nutt, in the Strand, 1887.
Description: 
[4], lxxxvi, [4], 65, [3] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman.
Notes: 

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.
Etched frontispiece, and vignette.
Title vignette.
Head-piece; tail-piece.

Binding: 
Original covers bound in. Full red levant leather binding by De Sauty. In a black solander case.
Provenance: 
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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