Accession number
PML 145968
Creator
Longus.
Published
[London : The Vale Press] Sold by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1893.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Translation of Poimenika ta kata Daphnin kai Chloēn.
"... The woodcuts drawn on the wood by Charles Ricketts from the designs by Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts have been engraved by both ... Finished in April of the year 1893. Of this edition only two hundred and ten copies exist, of which two hundred are for sale. The printing is by the Ballantyne Press, London and Edinburgh. Sold by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, at the sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street nigh the Albany.""--Colophon.
Illustrated with 37 wood engravings by Ricketts and Shannon.
"... The woodcuts drawn on the wood by Charles Ricketts from the designs by Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts have been engraved by both ... Finished in April of the year 1893. Of this edition only two hundred and ten copies exist, of which two hundred are for sale. The printing is by the Ballantyne Press, London and Edinburgh. Sold by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, at the sign of the Bodley Head in Vigo Street nigh the Albany.""--Colophon.
Illustrated with 37 wood engravings by Ricketts and Shannon.
Description
106 p. : ill. (wood engraving) ; 29 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of Percy Lancelot Babington; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's green cloth.
Classification
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Department