Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The eleven comedies / literally and completely translated from the Greek tongue into English with translator's foreword, an introduction to each comedy and elucidatory notes ; illustrations in colour and black and white by Jean de Bosschere.

Accession number
PML 144000-01
Creator
Aristophanes.
Published
New York : Published for subscribers only by Horace Liveright, 1928.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Head and tail pieces.
"This edition ... is strictly limited to two thousand and fifty numbered sets ... This work will not be reprinted."--Half t.p. verso. v. 1.
Library has copy no. 497.
"This beautiful translation was originally published by the Athenian society, London, 1912, for subscribers only. The name of the translator was not stated ... The present text is based on that edition."--p. [ix].
Illustrated with 16 color and 16 b&w halftone lithographic plates after designs by Bosschere.
Vol. 1: xxv, 377 p., [15] leaves of plates; v. 2: 480 p., [17] leaves of plate.
"This edition has been printed by the Van Rees Press; the illustrations by the Knudsen process. Typography by S.A. Jacobs"--Colophon, v. 2.
Description
2 v. : ill. (partly col.) ; 25 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's black cloth.
Classification
Department