quarter parchment, gilt paper-covered boards
1923 · Soho
by Cowley, Abraham
Soho: The Nonesuch Press, 1923. quarter parchment, gilt paper-covered boards. Nonesuch Press. 8vo. quarter parchment, gilt paper-covered boards. (108) pages. Limited to 725 numbered copies (Dreyfus 12). Lacking the dust jacket. Boards rubbed. Private bookplate of Bella C. Landauer on front pastedown. This book contains the 52 poems of the Anacreon translated into English from the original Greek by Abraham Cowley. Embellished with four full page engravings, two decorations, and a title page by Stephen Gooden printed from the cooperplates. Set in Monotype Garamond and printed on Van Gelder handmade paper.
(Inventory #: 96781)
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