Ashendene Press.- Apuleius (Lucius) XI. Bookes of the Golden Asse containing the Metamorphosie, one
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Ashendene Press.- Apuleius (Lucius) XI. Bookes of the Golden Asse containing the Metamorphosie..., translated by William Adlington, one of 165 copies on paper, printed in red and black in Subiaco type, initials in red and blue designed by Graily Hewitt, original holland-backed patterned-paper boards, uncut, paper label to spine, spine a little spotted, very slight rubbing to corners and edges of boards, [Franklin p.241; Hornby 33], 4to, Ashendene Press, 1924.*** "This story in archetypally Pre-Raphaelite taste appeared time and again in various forms from the private presses; Burne-Jones illustrated it, Morris cut his designs on wood. The undecorated Ashendene edition is best of them all, Subiaco readable and enjoyable on a page roughly the size of the 1465 Lactantius." (Franklin)
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