Daphnis & Chloe: A Most Sweet, and Pleasant Pastorall Romance for Young Ladies
by Longus; translated by Geo. Thornley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Quite heavy foxing and staining to papered boards. Paper spine label foxed and chipped at margins. Heavy offsetting to the fly leaves adjacent to the free endpapers. A couple of dents and knocks to rear board.; Number 316 of an edition of 450 copies. 108, [3] pages. Papered boards with hessian spine. Title page printed in two colours. Initials and some headers printed in contrasting blue-green colour. Page dimensions: 252 x 185mm. "The Sophist sees a picture of curious interpretation in the Island Lesbos. And he describes it in four Books." - page 15. ; 4to .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6351
- Title
- Daphnis & Chloe: A Most Sweet, and Pleasant Pastorall Romance for Young Ladies
- Author
- Longus; translated by Geo. Thornley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Golden Cockerel Press
- Place of Publication
- Waltham Saint Lawrence
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- Botany Flowers Horticulture
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Leaves
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- Title Page
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- First Edition
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- Spine Label
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...