Lysis, or, Friendship ; The Symposium ; Phaedrus [SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR]
signed first edition Hardcover
1968 · Mount Vernon, NY
by Plato; Benjamin Jowett (translator); Whitney J. Oates (preface); Eugene Karlin (illustrator)
Mount Vernon, NY: Limited Editions Club, 1968. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near fine -. Quarto. xv, (1), 208, (2)pp. Plus 20 unnumbered leaves of plates. Goatskin vellum with brown calf spine label, over brown boards, front cover with a gilt vignette. Housed in publisher's matching brown cardboard slipcase with gold paper spine label. Illustrated with 20 plates of line drawings. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies (this is #1363), printed at the Press of A. Colish, and signed on the limitation leaf by Eugne Karlin. Horizontal scratch on back cover of slipcase, otherwise a near fine copy. (Inventory #: 50623)