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Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Idyls of Theocritus (Vol 1) Andrew Lang (Limited, #214) W. R. Flint, Art A firm square copy with sunned spine and cover edges. Owner's 1940 gift inscription to ffe. Volume 1, THE IDYLS OF THEOCRITUS only. (Volume 2, BION & MOSCHUS not present). Limited Edition. One of 500 copies. This is copy #214 of 500 copies. Rendered into English prose by Andrew Lang. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, gilt top edges, rough-cut fore and bottom edges. (Spelled as IDYLS on the cover and title page, American English). Short pastoral poems.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$288.19 + shipping
Description: pp. (iv), xxxv, (i), 92, (viii). Frontispiece and 14 plates, all in colour; (iv), xi, (i), 28, (vi). Frontispiece and 4 plates, all in colour. Linen-backed boards, paper labels on spines and front boards, dust wrappers, uncut and top edges gilt, wrappers slightly faded, scattered marginal foxing, a small rough patch at the lower edge of the front cover in the second volume clearly as issued, spare labels for each volume at the rear of the books, very good copies.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
THEOCRITUS. Theocritus, Bion and Moschus. Medici Society, London, 1922.
Price: US$299.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large 8 Vo. Two (2) volumes rebound in quarter navy cloth over baby blue paper boards with paper title labels. Translated from the original Greek by Andrew Lang. Colour plates by Flint.These books originally lived in country in Hawaii and suffered considerably from bookworms. Text not affected. Evidence of slight dampness. An attractive rebound set.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Two volumes. xxxv; 92; xi; 28 pages, rough cut page edges top edge in gilt. 17 mounted colour plates (one tissue guard lightly creased). Original light blue paper covered boards with buckram spine with printed paper title labels on the upper cover and spines (spare labels tipped-in at the rear of the volumes).Very light water stain to lower corner of a few pages to the rear of volume two. In complete but sun affected dust wrappers. With the near contemporary ownership inscription of Arthur M. Kelly lightly pencilled on the endpaper. A magnificent set.
Seller: Roger Collicott Books, Widecombe in the Moor, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: The Medici Society / Riccardi Press, 1922. First Thus. Limited Edition of 500, these being #188 and printed on Riccardi paper. Two large octavo volumes. 92 pp.; 28 pp. Color plates with lettered tissue guards, complete. Bound in full limp vellum lettered in gilt with green silk fore-edge ties; top edge gilt. No dust jackets. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Vellum boards wrinkled with some spotting along bottom edge of volume II. Bindings are sound. Dampstaining along bottom edge of many tissue guards; pages otherwise unmarked. Overall a Very Good, attractive set.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
(Lang, Andrew) trans. Theocritus, Bion & Moschus. Medici Society, London, 1922.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: #77 of 500 regular editions, cloth-backed boards 2 vol. with bound in ribbon bookmarks, top edge gilt. Illustrated with richly colored plates by W. Russell Flint, 15 plates in volume I, Theocritus, and 5 plates in the smaller volume II, The Idylls of Bion and Moschus. Offsetting from dj flaps to the endpapers, light wear to board edges else fine in fine, slightly toned djs.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$412.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto. In two volumes, limited to 500 copies by the Riccardi Press on hand-made Riccardi paper, 92pp., and 28pp., illustrated by W. Russel Flint with 20 color mounted plates, bound in 1/4 beige cloth over pale blue paper covered boards, paper labels and with spare paper labels to each volume at rear, top edges gilt, one bumped corner to each volume, in dust jackets with toning to spine and edges and minor tiny chips to spine ends or corners. A very good set.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
LANG Andrew.; RUSSELL FLINT William. Theocritus, Bion and Moschus. , 1922.
Price: US$415.00 + shipping
Description: Translated by Andrew Lang. Two colour tipped-in frontispieces and eighteen plates by William Russell Flint. Two volumes. One of 500 copies of a total edition of 512. 4to., original linen-backed boards, dust jackets. Top edges gilt, others uncut. London, The Medici Society. Dust jackets very slightly shopworn and slightly faded to the spine, but a very good set. Small bookplate.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$468.75 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 512 copies, this copy #294 of 500 on Riccardi hand-made paper; 2 vols., 4to, 20 mounted color plates by Flint, sensuously rendering the works of these late Greek poets; fine set in the orig. printed dust-jackets which are faded at the extremities.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$468.75 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 512 copies, this #389/500 on hand-made Riccardi paper, 2 volumes, 4to, 20 mounted color plates after semi-erotic drawings by W. Russell Flint; fine set in original holland-backed boards, paper labels on upper covers and spines; this set retaining its original printed dust jackets, lightly chipped at extremities.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$512.35 + shipping
Description: Uniform matching hard back binding in publisher's original beige linen-backed boards, printed cream paper title labels to the spines and to the front covers, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. 4to. 10¾'' x 8''. Hand written number 108 of 500 Limited Edition copies printed on hand-made Riccardi paper. Contains 2 volumes [xxxvi], 92pp; [xii], 28pp, 20 mounted colour plates by Sir William Russell Flint each with a tissue-guard with a caption in red. An excellent copy preserved in a custom made cloth covered slip case. Heavy 2 volumes weighing 2 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [British]
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarto. 26cm x 20cm. Bound in full blue leather. Gilt lettering to spine. Pictorial design to front cover. Five raised bands.TEG. with a design to edges. Two volumes bound in one. Engraved title page, lettering designed by Edith Engall and the central ornament by Russell Flint. 20 mounted color plates with tissue guards by Flint. This is copy #198 of 500 copies Light edge wear.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1601.08 + shipping
Description: First Flint edition, deluxe issue, number 248 of 500 copies printed on handmade paper; there were also 12 copies printed on vellum. William Russell Flint's vivid style is particularly suited to evoking the worlds of Ancient Greek idyllic and pastoral poetry. This edition was translated by Andrew Lang (1844-1912), a classicist and anthropologist best known for his writings on folklore and mythology. In his translations, "his virtuosity clamoured for expression, and works of apparently effortless expertise flowed from his pen" (ODNB). As noted by Gardner, "The Greek world of poetic escapism was typified by the idyllic scenes of nymphs and shepherds romping in summer fields to the sound of pan-pipes. The great exponent of this type of poetry was Theocritus whose traditions were carried on by Bion and Moschus. The work for [Philip] Lee Warner's book was completed in 1913 but it was not to be until 1922 that the two-volume work was to appear under the Medici Banner". Keith S. Gardner, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Unsigned Limited Edition Works of Sir William Russell Flint, 1994, p. 117; Ransom, p. 395. 2 volumes, quarto (265 x 195 mm). Contemporary blue morocco, spine with raised bands, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, covers lettered in gilt, decorated endpapers. Colour frontispieces, 18 colour plates, with captioned tissue guards, all by Flint. Some minor surface marks to binding, occasional foxing: a near-fine set.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom