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Les Métamorphoses

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Facsim. of the 1931 ed., trans. and ed. by Georges Lafaye and published by Les Presses de Léon Pichon, Paris.

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Ovid's Metamorphoses, in Fifteen Books

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"The eleventh, in this Twenty-sixth Series of the fine books made for the members of this Club ... fifteen etchings to serve as half-titles to the fifteen books ... The type for the text is the twelve-point of Centaur, and the marginalia are set in…

The Art of Love

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Translation of Ars Amatoria

De Civitate Dei

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Opening to each book extensively rubricated in red and blue, while book numbers and illuminated capitals appear on each page. Elaborate hand-drawn illustrations set this copy apart from other existing copies. An unsigned 19th century note on final…

De Civitate Dei Libri XXII

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Gothic letters without catchwords or pagination. Two- to eight-line spaces with guide letters left for initials.

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The Confessions of St. Augustine

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"The eighth of this Thirtieth Series of the fine books made for the members of this Club ... The twenty-four full-page color illustrations have been painted by Edy Legrand; four of thse have been printed as endpapers... The book has been designed by…

The Brescia Dante

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No. 69 of a limited ed. of 250 copies

Illustrations to the Divine Comedy of Dante

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A slightly enlarged version ; the drawings of the ed. priv. print. by E. Walker Limited for the subscribers of the National Art-Collections Fund, London, 1922, have been reproduced in facsimile.

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