Folio. Text printed in red and black. (Some occasional spotting.) Original white pigskin, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 3, uncut, stamp-signed by W.H. Smith & Son Limited (some light age-toning, some rubbing to extremities). 

LIMITED EDITION, one of 260 copies of a total edition of 280, THE LAST FOLIO PRINTED BY THE ASHENDENE PRESS. The red initials are from the alphabet designed by Eric Gill for the Ashendene Press' Utopia (1906). Franklin 196; Hornby XXXVII.

[Laid in:] FREILICH, Marvin S., M.D. (ca 1919-1996). Autograph document initialed ("MF"). N.d., n.p. 1 page, on "From the desk of - Marvin S. Freilich, M.D." stationery. Regarding details of the present copy, which he valued at $1100: "The 'Funeral' speech, delivered by Pericles at the conclusion of the first year of the Peloponnesian War. To borrow a phrase from a superb phrasemaker of our century, it was Athens' 'Finest Hour.'"