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The Age of Fable (Signed-Limited Edition)
by Bulfinch, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- F
- Seller
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Alliance, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club. F. 1958. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Limited Editions Club edition. This is #975 of 1500 copies numbered an d signed by the illustrator Joe Mugnaini on the colophon page. Quarter bound in white vellum and gray decorated boards with a gold title lab el on the spine. A Fine copy in a Fair condition tissue dust jacket. T he tissue jacket is chipped and edge torn. The front panel has a 5" te ar with a 5" crease at its lower edge. Heavy tanning to its spine. The book is housed in a very good slipcase. Tanning and soiling to the sl ipcase. Illustrated from original lithographs on stone by Mugnaini. In troduction by Dudley Fitts. Shipping weight is approximately five pou nds. Additional shipping costs will apply to international orders. .
Synopsis
For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity, Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths, and the age of chivalry have been known. The forerunner of such interpreters as Edith Hamilton and Robert Graves, Thomas Bulfinch wanted to make these stories available to the general reader. A series of private notes to himself grew into one of the single most useful and concise guides to literature and mythology. The stories are divided into three sections: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (first published in 1855); The Age of Chivalry (1858), which contains King Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon, and The Knights of English History; and The Legends of Charlemagne or The Romance of the Middle Ages (1863). For the Greek myths, Bulfinch drew on Ovid and Virgil, and for the sagas of the north, from Mallet's Northern Antiquities. provides lively versions of the myths of Zeus and Hera, Venus and Adonis, Daphne and Apollo, and their cohorts on Mount Olympus; the love story of Pygmalion and Galatea; the legends of the Trojan War and the epic wanderings of Ulysses and Aeneas; the joys of Valhalla and the furies of Thor; and the tales of Beowulf and Robin Hood.
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- Dearly Departed Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63275
- Title
- The Age of Fable (Signed-Limited Edition)
- Author
- Bulfinch, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- Avon, CT
- Date Published
- 1958
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