Books and Manuscripts

London and New York: Privately printed for members of the Aldus Society, 1904. First and limited edition thus, #725/971 numbered copies of the Edition de Grande Luxe (from a total edition of 1,000). 4to. 341 pp. Translated from the French of Louys (who himself translated the Greek of Bilitis) by Horace Manchester Brown. Frontispiece portrait of Louys by James Fagan. Bound in full purple reverse calf, decorated in gilt, spine slightly faded; decorated endpapers; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; enclosed in a leather-entry linen slip case and chemise; by Bennett. A fine copy.

A lovely example from The Bennett Book Studios, a fine book bindery in New York City established in the late 1920s by bookman and binder Whitman Bennett (1884-1968).

From the library of bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003).