Author: APULEIUS, LUCIUS; PATER, WALTER
Title: The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
Description: New York: The Heritage Press, [c1950s]. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670804371. An attractive Heritage Press reprint edition in slipcase presenting a story from Lucius Apuleius's "The Golden Ass," as retold by Walter Pater. With several color illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Sandglass leaflet is not present. --- In terra cotta cloth-covered boards with decorations and titling to cover & spine in gilt all textblock edges stained dark red. Volume bears 1951 date but could have been published later in the 1950s. Volume housed in gold paper-covered slipcase. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, unmarked and tightly-bound, but with somewhat age-toned leaves. Slipcase with quite a few fingerprints and mild scuffing to edges, else structurally sound.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; 64 pages. Very Good+ .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Illustrated Classics >>Heritage Press Editions
Title: The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
Description: New York: The Heritage Press, [c1950s]. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670804371. An attractive Heritage Press reprint edition in slipcase presenting a story from Lucius Apuleius's "The Golden Ass," as retold by Walter Pater. With several color illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Sandglass leaflet is not present. --- In terra cotta cloth-covered boards with decorations and titling to cover & spine in gilt all textblock edges stained dark red. Volume bears 1951 date but could have been published later in the 1950s. Volume housed in gold paper-covered slipcase. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, unmarked and tightly-bound, but with somewhat age-toned leaves. Slipcase with quite a few fingerprints and mild scuffing to edges, else structurally sound.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; 64 pages. Very Good+ .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Illustrated Classics >>Heritage Press Editions
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 85790
- Book number: 85790