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

"The most important of these extant works of Petronius is the famous episodic novel "The Satiricon". 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 rign 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".

The 100 gorgeous, full page illustrations by Norman Lindsay make this edition of Petronius a genuine collector's item.

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Original dust jacket in mylar cover (small edge damages: see scan); 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 condition. [oeub]