The Vigil of Venus. Translation by F. L. Lucas. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1939. First edition, one of 100 copies only, 4to, original citron morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, cockerel frieze in blind to covers, title-pages in Latin and English each with two engraved vignettes, 14 engraved head- and tailpieces, housed in original brown buckram slipcase, with proofs of both title-pages and a single bifolium of text laid in, spine darkened [Pertelote 141] (1) Note: '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' (Pertelote). Provenance: Property of an English collector.
The Vigil of Venus. Translation by F. L. Lucas. London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1939. First edition, one of 100 copies only, 4to, original citron morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, cockerel frieze in blind to covers, title-pages in Latin and English each with two engraved vignettes, 14 engraved head- and tailpieces, housed in original brown buckram slipcase, with proofs of both title-pages and a single bifolium of text laid in, spine darkened [Pertelote 141] (1) Note: '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' (Pertelote). Provenance: Property of an English collector.
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