first edition
1978 · Edinburgh
by Tragara Press. Ricketts, Charles
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1978. First Edition, limited, one of 150 copies, of this account of Ricketts' journey to Greece in 1911 with Charles Shannon. Ricketts kept a diary of this journey and turned parts of it into articles, translated into Italian for the magazine "La Ronda." Another bit -- on Wilde and Praxiteles -was published as a "tail-piece" to Ricketts' published letters and journals in 1939. This, then, is the first complete edition and the first edition in English. Illustrated with a reproduction of the photograph of Ricketts sitting in the Seat of the High Priest in the Theatre of Dionysos, Athens, February l911. 8vo, original blue cloth, issued w/o dj, as new. (Inventory #: 1034)