Author: APULEIUS, LUCIUS; PATER, WALTER
Title: The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
Description: New York: The Heritage Press, 1951. Hardcover. An attractive Heritage Press reprint edition in slipcase presenting a story from Lucius Apuleius's "The Golden Ass," as retold by Walter Pater. Dating to the second century AD, this is the love story of Psyche, who represents the soul, and Cupid, representing desire. With several color illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Sandglass leaflet laid in (New York, no. V: 16). --- In reddish-brown cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped lamp and titling to cover and gilt-stamped spine titling with reddish-brown staining to all textblock edges. Volume housed in repaired gold paper-covered slipcase. --- An about-Near Fine copy: bright and newish. The edges of the slipcase have been repaired with mis-matched tan paper, and with rubbing to underlying gold paper covering; now stabilized and structurally sound.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; [6], 7-64 pages. Near Fine .

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