"The Complete Works of Gaius Petronius Comprising The Satyricon and Poems". Done into English by Jack Lindsay with One Hundred full-page illustrations by Norman Lindsay. Privately Printed for Rarity Press, New York, 1932, the copyright page is blank; printed in England from the plates of the Fanfrolico limited edition of 650 copies, London, 1927. First American Edition with the original dust jacket.

100 monochrome line drawings by Norman Lindsay are printed on one side only (the back of each plate is blank).

Original dust jacket protected in mylar cover (small edge damages: see photo); hard boards, original publisher's cloth stamped in silver; 6.1/2" x 9.1/2"; 151 pages and 100 un-paginated plates printed on one side only (the back of the drawings is blank); some signs of paper aging (some darkening, especially endpapers), very good/ fine condition.

"The most important of these extant works of Petronius is the famous episodic novel "The Satyricon". The speaker is one Encolpius, narrating the adventures of himself and his boon companions in Southern Italy. The action never pauses; from lecture room to house of ill fame, from country mansion to country tavern, from a harlot's palace to a rich parvenu's table. From ship and shipwreck to a luxurious life of imposture in a wealthy provincial town... a caustic, kaleidoscopic, terrible satire on the decadence and moral turpitude into which Roman society had fallen during the reign of Nero.

In this edition the reader will find passages in verse freely interspersed in the midst of the prose - exactly as found in the original "Satirae".

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