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Lot 562

[FINE PRESS & LIVRE D?ARTISTE]. ?? [CRESSET PRESS]. OVID. T...

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[FINE PRESS & LIVRE D?ARTISTE]. ?? [CRESSET PRESS]. OVID. The Heroycall Epistles? Translated into English by George Turberville. London: Cresset Press, 1928. Tall 8vo. 10 full?page plates by Hester Sainsbury. Publisher?s tan buckram backed linen, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut (faint sunning to extremities). LIMITED EDITION, number 4 of 350 copies printed on mould?made paper from a total edition of 380, edited with introduction and glossary by Frederick Boas. FINE. From the private library of a prominent Chicago collector, part II.