Baucis and Philemon.

(Simon King Press.) (SWIFT) Jonathan

Baucis and Philemon.

Illustrated with wood engravings by Simon King.

Description: 97/150 COPIES printed in Bodoni roman on Basingwerk parchment, with 4 full-page wood-engravings, and 2 further wood-engraved vignettes on title and limitation pages, pp. [vi], 15, [iii], 4to, original white card, yellow integral wrappers, backstrip and front cover lettered in black, backstrip very faintly sunned, upper edge of wrapper cover with light crease, very good

Publication Details: Beetham: 1983

Notes: The text, 'imitated from the eighth book of Ovid', and with a dedication to 'the everlamented loss of the two Yew trees in the parish of Chilthorne, Somerset 1706', has been taken from 'the 1803 edition of the The Works of the Reverend Jonathan Swift, D.D. by Thomas Sheridan and the spelling remains unchanged.' (limitation page)

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Price: £35

Subject: Private Press

Published Date: 1983

Stock Number: 74018

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