The Birds.

(Lion and Unicorn Press.) ARISTOPHANES.

The Birds.

An English Version by Dudley Fitts with a new series of illustrations by Quentin Blake.

Description: 7/[400 COPIES], copious monochrome illustrations by Quentin Blake, a number of them full-page, title printed in red, pp. 168, 4to, publisher's wrappers illustrated with a falling feather design by Blake, wrapper edges and backstrip very faintly toned, very good

Publication Details: 1971

Notes: As Fitts explains in his Introductory Note, a play of comic fantasy, but imbued with satire, particularly regarding the contemporary society's laudatory attitude to the professional informer. Blake's characteristic style is perfectly suited to the humorous, pointed, feathery subject-matter.

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