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Apuleius, Lucius

The XI. Books of the Golden Aces. Containing the Metamorphosis of Lucius Apuleius interlaced with sundry pleasent and delectable Tales: With an excellent Narration of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyches set out in the fourth, fifth, and the sixth Bookes translated out of Latine into English, by William Adlington

Chelsea, The Ashendene Press 1924.

30.5 x 22 cm. VII, 230 pages. With numerous initials in red and blue. Dark blue original morocco binding on 5 ribs with spine and cover titles, fillet gilt with corner fleurons, gilt head edges. In slipcase. (Signed: Ron Eadie). - Printed by the Ashendene Press in 165 copies. The 36 red and 6 blue initials were cut by Graily Hewett and printed from the original blocks. The Metamorphoses of Apuleius, which Augustine of Hippo called "The Golden Ass," is the only Roman novel in Latin to survive in its entirety. A perfect copy. - Tomkinson 36.

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