Untitled historic item (003716)
Author(s):
Plato
; Mathews, K A(translator)
Illustrator(s):
Lamb, Lynton
| Binding: | Hardcover |
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| Size: | 6 - 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall |
| Volume Condition: | Near Fine |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher Name: | Fulcrum Press |
| Publication Year: | 1930 |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| SKU: | 003716 |
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| Categories: | Beautiful Books , Classic Literature , Illustrated Books |
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Unpaginated, illustrated with woodcuts (frontispiece, title page vignette and occasional head and tail pieces).. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt text on spine. Some light staining on front board. Richly decorated endpapers, free papers slightly toned. No. 742 of an edition limited to 750 copies, on Batcham Green hand made paper. "For his earliest books, mainly for private presses, he (Lynton Lamb) employed wood engraving, the frontispiece to the Fulcrum Press edition of Plato's "Lysis: A Dialogue" (1930) being an especially modish interpretation." ("British Wood-Engraved Book Illustration 1904-1940" by Joanna Selborne. 8vo.
Lamb, Lynton
Plato, woodcuts, Illustrated Books, fine press, private press
Keywords:
Plato
Woodcuts
Illustrated Books
Fine Press
Private Press
