The Elegies of Ovid from the translation by Christopher Marlowe.
by FANTASY PRESS. MELLOR, Oscar (illustrates)
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Fantasy Press, Eynsham., 1954. First edition thus: illustrated with line drawings printed in red by Oscar Mellor who is also the publisher of the book. Octavo. pp [x], 112. Blue cloth with device in silver on front. Number 32 of 170 copies.Publisher's own copy: his signature on front free endpaper, together with ''file copy'' ink stamp. This is the most ambitious of Mellor's printing projects.Pastedowns faintly spotted. Near fine. Probably not issued in dustwrapper.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Elegies of Ovid from the translation by Christopher Marlowe.
- Author
- FANTASY PRESS. MELLOR, Oscar (illustrates)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Fantasy Press, Eynsham.
- Date Published
- 1954
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