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The Phaedo of Plato

Uniform Title
Phaedo. English
Title
The Phaedo of Plato / translated into English by Benjamin Jowett.
Publication
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire : Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description
[2], 78, [2] pages ; 28 cm
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center has no. 420 of 500. With the corrected title page and name, Benjamin Jowett. Bound in publisher's original blue buckram.
BEIN 1975 1952: No. 477. With corrected t.p. Bookplate of Douglas Maxwell Moffat.
BEIN 1997 +187: No. 235. With uncorrected t.p. Laid in is corrected version of t.p. (with p. 15-16), and two items of correspondence relating to the misprint (dated Apr. 29 and June 13, 1930).
Notes
Two variants of the title page exist. One gives the name of the translator as William Jowett, a misprint. Later printings have the corrected name, Benjamin Jowett.
"This book was printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, & completed on the 25th day of February, 1930. The text is reprinted by permission of the Oxford University Press. The ornaments and initial letters are by Eric Gill. Compositors: A.H. Gibbs and F. Young. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. The edition is limited to 500 copies."--Colophon.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 69
Genre/Form
Private press books (Publishing) - England - Waltham Saint Lawrence.
Wood engravings - 1930.
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