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The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche Re-Told by Walter Pater from "The Golden Ass" of Lucius Apuleius
Pater, Walter; Edmund Dulac, Illustrator · New York
- Author
- Pater, Walter; Edmund Dulac, Illustrator
- Date
- 1951
- Place
- New York
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 4to.(7.25" x 10.375") 64 + (2) pp. 1951. Limited Edition #720/1500. In slipcase. Full vellum with gilt lettering and floral decoration to upper board, gilt lettering to spine. Bookseller's pencilled notes to first free endpaper, title page in red and black, all other pages with red title and pg# in red, text in black, or illustrated. Signed by the artist, Edmund Dulac, and numbered on limitation page at rear of text. Darker toning to exposed spine of volume with light soiling to covers. Upper corner of upper board bumped, but not that noticable. Illustrated with 6 colorful paintings by Edmund Dulac. Slipcase with soiling, darker toned spine with gilt lettering (see pic).
- Format
- Limitation page at rear of volume states: For this edition of "The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche" the story has been taken from the pages of Walter Pater's "Marius the Epicurean" and printed in this fashionm for the first time. Fifteen hundred copies have been made for the members of The Limited Editions Club by Huxley House in New York under the supervision of Warren Chappell; and the text is composed in Mr. Chappell's Trajanus. The Illustrations have been reproduced by Arthur Jaffe in New York from the water-color paintings of Edmund Dulac; and Mr. Dulac here signs [Edmund Dulac] this copy, which is number 720.
- Category
- Autographs & Manuscripts
- Record
- S.I.9390
The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche Re-Told by Walter Pater from "The Golden Ass" of Lucius Apuleius. Walter Pater; Edmund Dulac, Illustrator. 1951. New York: Limited Editions Club. 4to.(7.25" x 10.375") 64 + (2) pp. 1951. Limited Edition #720/1500. In slipcase. Full vellum with gilt lettering and floral decoration to upper board, gilt lettering to spine. Bookseller's pencilled notes to first free endpaper, title page in red and black, all other pages with red title and pg# in red, text in black, or illustrated. Signed by the artist, Edmund Dulac, and numbered on limitation page at rear of text. Darker toning to exposed spine of volume with light soiling to covers. Upper corner of upper board bumped, but not that noticable. Illustrated with 6 colorful paintings by Edmund Dulac. Slipcase with soiling, darker toned spine with gilt lettering (see pic). Limitation page at rear of volume states: For this edition of "The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche" the story has been taken from the pages of Walter Pater's "Marius the Epicurean" and printed in this fashionm for the first time. Fifteen hundred copies have been made for the members of The Limited Editions Club by Huxley House in New York under the supervision of Warren Chappell; and the text is composed in Mr. Chappell's Trajanus. The Illustrations have been reproduced by Arthur Jaffe in New York from the water-color paintings of Edmund Dulac; and Mr. Dulac here signs [Edmund Dulac] this copy, which is number 720.
Condition
Very Good
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