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Title(s)
Daphnis & Chloe : a most sweet, and pleasant pastorall romance for young ladies / translated out of the Greek of Longus, by Geo. Thornley, gent.
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Additional Title(s)
Daphnis and Chloe. English
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Published/Created
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire : Golden Cockerel Press, mcmxxiij [1923, that is 1930]
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Physical Description
108, [3] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PA4229.L8 E5 1923
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
"Here end the Lesbian pastorals of Daphnis & Chloe, in the English version of Mr. Geo. Thornley, faithfully printed from the edition of mdclvii. This edition of 450 copies for sale printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, & finished on the vii day of November, mcmxxiii. Compositors: F. Young & A.H. Gibbs. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. Seen through the press by Gay Taylor."--Colopon.
"May, 1930. Special issue of 97 sets of sheets remaining from the above [i.e. the 1923] edition, with 5 engravings on copper by J.E. Laboureur. Bound in maize buckram. Price 3 Gns."--Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press.
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 17
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 368 of 450. Bound in publisher's original cream buckram. -
Subject Terms
Daphnis (Greek mythology) | Daphnis (Greek mythology) -- Fiction. | Daphnis (Greek mythology) Fiction | Private press books -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence -- Specimens.
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Form/Genre
Engravings -- 1930. | Fiction. | Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence.
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