Some Greek Love-Poems gathered and translated, with a brief account of Greek Love-Poetry - Erotika

Edmonds, J. M. (translator)
Publication Date 1929
Publisher Peter Davies,
Binding Hardback
Condition Good+, sound copy
SKU 26060
Notes Blue cloth is faded and darkened to the spine and has scattered faint marks across the surface. Softened to edges and points. Text is clean, crisp and bright. Binding is sound.

Description

Hardback. Limited edition of this attractively produced Greek text with translation. Printed on Batchelor’s hand-made paper by Enschedé of the Netherlands, with type-designer Jan van Krimpen’s Antigone Greek. Antigone was produced by van Krimpen just two years earlier in 12 point for the works of Sappho, Sappho Revocata (Peter Davies, 1928), and used here for the first time in 16 point. For the English text Jan van Krimpen’s Lutetia (the Roman name for Paris) is used. Numbered 90 out of limited edition of 400 copies for sale. With illustrations by Vera Willoughby. xi,43pp Greek text + 47pp English text. Detailed colophon / limitation page at the rear of the text. Quarto. Blue cloth with gilt titles to front and spine. Bevelled edges to the boards. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Translator, John Maxwell Edmonds, is best know for his war epigrams which were the source for “When you go home, tell them of us and say/ For your tomorrow, we gave our today,” among others.
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