DAPHNIS & CHLOE: A Most Sweet, and Pleasant Pastorall romance for Young Ladies, translated out of the Greek by Geo. Thornley.
Pp. 108+[4](colophon, gilt cockerel device, and blanks), printed in black & green; cr. 4to; qr. natural linen with printed paper title label on spine, pale blue Michallet papered boards, lightly foxed and browned, edges of boards lightly worn; uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown and bookseller's sticker at foot of same, the free endpapers heavily browned, a few leaves slightly creased, a couple of short edge splits, scattered foxing and occasional faint soiling; The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, 1923. Edition limited to 450 numbered copies on Van Gelder paper. Chanticleer 17. *Several years later, in 1930, a special issue of 97 sheets remaining from this edition, illustrated with 5 engravings on copper by J. E. Laboureur and bound in maize buckram, was published. Item #162904
Price: $150.00