The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
by Pater, Walter / Apuleius, Lucius
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket as issued
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1996. Book. Illus. by Dulac, Edmund. Near Fine. Full-Leather. Hardcover - Deluxe Reprint. Slim Quarto. 64 pp, re-tolde by Wlater Pater from the 'Golden Ass' of Lucius Apuleius'. 6.75" x 10.3" red leather boards, gilt design and letters and text block, raised bands on spine, moiré e.p.'s, etc., color illustrations. with replica library catalogue cards and Notes from the Archives brochure laid in. Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 - after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. Walter Horatio Pater - 19th century English writer.
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008520
- Title
- The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
- Author
- Pater, Walter / Apuleius, Lucius
- Illustrator
- Dulac, Edmund
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as issued
- Edition
- Hardcover - Deluxe Reprint
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- Slim Quarto
- Keywords
- The Collector's Library of Famous Editions bound in genuine leather (born Edmond Dulac; 22 October 1882 - 25 May 1953) was a French-British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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- Reprint
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- Quarto
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