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[ARISTOPHANES]; LINDSAY, Jack (translator); LINDSAY, Norman (illustrator).

Lysistrata.

Lysistrata.

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Stock Code 109667

London, Fanfrolico Press, 1926

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One of 725 copies - signed by the translator. Illustrated limited edition of Aristophanes' bawdy anti-war comedy telling the story of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War.

Privately printed for subscribers only by the short-lived Fanfrolico Press, founded by Jack Lindsay, P.R. Stephensen and John Kirtley, in a total edition of 725 copies on Batchelor's handmade paper. The present copy is number 253 of 300 copies for sale overseas, signed and numbered by the translator.

Limited edition, number 253 of 300 overseas copies, from a total edition of 725, signed and numbered by the translator; folio (40 x 30 cm); 4 full-page plates and 8 smaller in-text illustrations by Norman Lindsay, occasional light finger-soiling, light foxing and offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's half blue morocco over decorative gilt paper covered boards, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, slight toning to boards, spine slightly sunned, some rubbing to corners and extremities, else very good.

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