Accession number
PML 143429
Creator
Apuleius.
Published
London : Privately printed by J.H. Mason 19 Spencer Rd. Putney, now removed to 12 Oxford Rd. Putney, 1935.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Added t.p. dated 1928. According to statement following colophon, printing of text was "finished 1933, but the book was withheld until the exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society ... 1935."
"Colophon. Privately printed in London by J.H. Mason and A.J. Cullen on the hand-press. Translated from the Latin by J.H. Mason ... Illustrations drawn and engraved by Vivien Gribble ... in 1916. ..."--Colophon.
"Dates. ... printing of the text of the English translation finished 1933, but the book was withheld until the exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society next following, now arranged for November, 1935 ... About 130 copies of the English translation have been printed."--Verso of colophon.
Printed ruled page for the recording of the volume's ownership and binding history following colophon.
Library's copy is no. 88.
Inscription on printed provenance leaf: Given to me in return for "Private Press Types," by the printer's son, John Mason, on March 1st, 1952. Thomas Balston.
"Colophon. Privately printed in London by J.H. Mason and A.J. Cullen on the hand-press. Translated from the Latin by J.H. Mason ... Illustrations drawn and engraved by Vivien Gribble ... in 1916. ..."--Colophon.
"Dates. ... printing of the text of the English translation finished 1933, but the book was withheld until the exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society next following, now arranged for November, 1935 ... About 130 copies of the English translation have been printed."--Verso of colophon.
Printed ruled page for the recording of the volume's ownership and binding history following colophon.
Library's copy is no. 88.
Inscription on printed provenance leaf: Given to me in return for "Private Press Types," by the printer's son, John Mason, on March 1st, 1952. Thomas Balston.
Description
41 p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 28 cm
Provenance
From the libraries of Thomas Balston and Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Boards of hand painted cloth backed with white linen.
Classification
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