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The Complete Works of Gaius Petronius.

Stock Code 109672

London, Fanfrolico Press, 1927

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One of 650 copies - signed by the translator . Illustrated limited edition of the works of Petronius, comprising The Satyricon and Poems, privately printed for subscribers only by the short-lived Fanfrolico Press.

Published in an edition of 650 copies signed and numbered by the translator, of which this is number 650. The present example is also additionally inscribed by P.R. Stephensen, one of the founders of the Fanfrolico Press, to his friend Robert Lowell Hall, Baron Roberthall: 'P.R.S. to R.L. Hall'.

Limited edition, number 650 of 650 copies, signed and numbered by the translator, additionally inscribed by the publisher; folio (32.6 x 24.5 cm); 100 full-page plates by Norman Lindsay, light toning and foxing; publisher's half maroon vellum over marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, spine somewhat sunned, slight rubbing to boards and extremities, else very good.

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Provenance: Robert Lowell Hall, Baron Roberthall (publisher's presentation inscription).<br />

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The Complete Works of Gaius Petronius.

[PETRONIUS]; LINDSAY, Jack (translator); LINDSAY, Robert (illustrator).

Stock code: 109672

$484.00

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