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[VELLUM PRINTING] THEOCRITUS, BION and MOSCHUS. [LANG, ANDREW, trans.]. The Idyls of Theocritus rendered into English prose...

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Lot 243
[VELLUM PRINTING] THEOCRITUS, BION and MOSCHUS. [LANG, ANDREW, trans.]. The Idyls of Theocritus rendered into English prose...
London, Liverpool and Boston: The Medici Society, Riccardi Press, 1922. Number 10 of 12 copies on pure vellum, from an edition limited to 512. Two volumes, original limp vellum gilt, with green silk fore-edge ties, top edge gilt, others uncut, with the original pale blue dust-jackets. 10 1/8 x 7 5/8 inches (26 x 19.5 cm); xxxvi, 92, [4] pp.; xii, 28, [4] pp.; title pages in blue and black, 20 tipped-in colored plates by Russell Flint, with protective lettered tissues. The jackets slightly toned as usual, a few of the vellum leaves with a slight yellow cast (again, as usual for this work), in all a splendid copy.
Printed by Charles T. Jacobi in the Riccardi Fount on animal vellum.

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