publisher's cloth binding
1895 · Chicago
by Shelley, Percey Byshe (translator)
Chicago: Way and Williams, 1895. publisher's cloth binding. Rogers, Bruce. 8vo. publisher's cloth binding. 185 pages. First edition, of which this is one of 75 numbered copies printed on French handmade paper with the title page, two initial letters and tailpiece designed by Bruce Rogers (Kraus 9; Warde 5). Heavy foxing to preliminary pages and moderate foxing throughout. Minor rubbing to the extremities, spine age darkened. Printed by R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago at the Lakeside Press. A very scarce book.
"[Way & Williams'] most notable book of 1895 was an edition of Shelley's translation of Plato's Banquet designed (truncated)
"[Way & Williams'] most notable book of 1895 was an edition of Shelley's translation of Plato's Banquet designed (truncated)