Daphnis & Chloe
by Longus; translated by George Thornley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Geoffrey Bles. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1925. Hardcover. No signatures. A couple of leaves opened roughly, with chip to blank margin of 1 leaf. Some minor foxing. ; 200 pages + 12 colour plates (including frontispiece) + 3 black and white plates. 4 black and white in-text illustrations (headpiece vignettes at the beginning of each of the four books.) Cream cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, small gilt illustration at corner of front board. Page dimensions: 251 x 191mm. Text in English, translated from the Greeek by George Thornley in 1657. Illustrations by John Austen. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23606
- Title
- Daphnis & Chloe
- Author
- Longus; translated by George Thornley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Geoffrey Bles
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1925
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Leaves
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...