first edition Hardcover
2014
by Lang, Andrew, ed.
Easton Press, 2014. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 288. Collector's edition. Full green leather with gilt titling and decorations, five raised bands, all edges gilt. Sewn-in satin ribbon bookmark. Illustrated endpapers. Housed in green cloth slipcase with gilt titling and decorations. Lavishly illustrated in black and white drawings by Leslie Brooke. A stunning reproduction of the 1897 original. [Baumgarten p. 126] No jacket, as issued. Light rubbing to slipcase. Lang (1844 - 1912) was a Scottish journalist, poet, Classical scholar and translator, literary historian, speculative antiquarian, and folklorist, highly regarded for his translations of Homer and Theocritus. "He carried his learning lightly, a perfected a vigorous, urbane, sensitive prose style." [Steinberg, S.H. Cassell's Encyclopedia of Literature, p. 1144]
(Inventory #: 32690)