Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek by Abraham Cowley and S. B. 1683. Newly embellished with copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden

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The Nonesuch Press, Soho. 1923. (20), 52, (3) pages + 4 plates. Quarter parchment with gilt paper covered boards, title gilt down spine, all edges untrimmed. Boards with minor edge wear. Book plate inside front board (TH. S. Eliot). Set in Monotype Garamond, with the introduction in italic, printed but unacknowledged by the Pelican Press on Van Gelder handmade paper with Nonesuch watermark. Four full page engravings, two decorations and title page by Stephen Gooden printed from the copperplates, the full pages all inserted as cancels. Book design by Francis Meynell. The edition is limited to 725 copies. This is number 723. (Dreyfus no. 12).