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27, [1] pp. Translated by F.L. Lucas. With 12 etchings by John Buckland Wright, plus 2 etched tailpieces, & 2 etchings on each of the double title-pages. 11¼x8½, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full citron morocco tooled in blind, slipcase. No. 41 of 100 copies printed on Batchelor hand-made paper.

A lovely production, the last Golden Cockerel printing completed before the start of World War II. The bibliography notes "The very fine engravings, by a process revived for the first time in our generation and which took two years to produce, were inspired by the Roman sarcophagi in the Louvre, and represent a worthy complement to F.L. Lucas's beautiful rendering of the Latin text. GCP 141.