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The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
Uniform Title
Hymn to Aphrodite. English
Title
The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite / a new translation by F.L. Lucas, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge ; with ten engravings by Mark Severin.
Publication
London : Printed in Great Britain at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1948.
Physical Description
35, [1] pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 25 of 750; signed by F.L. Lucas. One of 100 copies specially bound in gilt-stamped red morocco, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Notes
Text in English and Greek.
"Designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London, in Poliphilus Roman and New Hellenic Greek types on Arnold's mould-made paper. Composition and presswork under the supervision of F.J. Newbery at the Chiswick Press. Compositors: A.G. Douglas and A.W. Dick. Pressman: J. Bierman. The printing was completed on the twenty-second day of April, 1948. The edition is limited to 750 copies. Nos. 1-100 have been specially bound."--Colophon.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 177
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Genre/Form
Private press books (Publishing) - England - London.
Wood engravings - 1948.
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