CANTICUM CANTICORUM SALOMONIS.
[Text in Latin]. Pp. 32+[2](colophon, blank), text printed in red & black, 11 wood-engraved illustrations (7 full page), and 18 decorative initials by Eric Gill; narrow roy. 8vo; qr. vellum, spine lettered in gilt, buff papered boards with vellum corner tips; t.e.g., others uncut; plain dust wrapper, slightly foxed, edges lightly rubbed, the backstrip slightly browned; within papered slipcase matching the dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and faintly browned; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on the upper pastedown, outer leaves and edges slightly foxed; Cranach Press, Weimar, 1931. Latin version; one of 200 numbered copies thus (total edition 268). Gill 284; Brinks 91 (and also pp. 146-167). *One of the last books from the Cranach Press; issued in three versions: French, German and Latin. Although located in Germany, Count Harry Kessler's press was directly inspired by the English private presses. Item #162930
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