Description: 25.1 x 19.2 cm, collated 4to, quarter cream faux-parchment over blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, in a slipcase with pasted pictorial titles, with different vignettes to front and back.
Title-page: The pastoral loves of | Daphnis & Chloe | Done into English by George Moore | With Etchings by Marcel Vertès | Folio Society ✶ London ✶ 1954 | {vignette} ||
Collation: [A]4 B-M4, total 48 leaves, incl. frontispiece plus 6 leaves of plates reproduced by collotype after etchings by Marcel Vertès, extraneous to collation.
Pagination: [1-6] (h.t., frontis., t.p./imprint) 7-95 [96]; total 96 pages, ils.
Ref.: WorldCat.
Catalogue raisonné: Vokaer (1967): № 61, p. 21.
Print run: according to Vokaer – 3750 copies.
Longus [Λόγγος] (Greek, 2nd century AD) – author.
George Moore (Irish, 1852 – 1933)– translator.
Marcel Vertès [Marcell Vértes] (Jewish-Hungarian-French, 1895 – 1961) – artist.
Charles Batey (British, 1893 – ?) – printer.
James Burn – binder
Additional Information
| Collection | Illustrated books , Library |
|---|---|
| Type / Purpose | Book |
| Period | 20 AD , Mid-20th Century |
| Country | Great Britain |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Classical , Daphnis and Chloe , Greek , Greek mythology , Illustrated books , Literature , Pastoral , Translations into English |
| Media/Technique | Collotype , Wove paper |
| Creation / Publishing year | 1954 |
| Edition | 1st edition, thus |
| Binding | Cloth , Slipcase |
| Catalogue raisonne | Vokaer (Vertès) |
| Acquisition year | 2022 |
