The golden asse of Lucius Apuleius / translated out of Latin by William Adlington ; with an introduction by E.B. Osborn and illustrated in colour and black and white by Jean de Bosschère.
Apuleius (c.125- after 170)
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085505
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxxv, [1], 282, [2] p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 8vo. Copy no. 386. Uniformly bound and shelved with two other limited editions of works illustrated by Jean de Bosschère and published by the Bodley Head. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (shield on a beaded oval): 'Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full purple morocco; gilt fillets to form a panel design on boards; sewn onto recessed cords; five false bands; gilt panelled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The golden asse of Apuleius / Adlington' and 'Illustrated by Jean de Bosschère'; gilt rolled board edges; gilt fillets on inner borders; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front inner border: 'Bound by Bayntun (Rivière), Bath, England.'.
Makers and roles
Apuleius (c.125- after 170), author William Adlington (fl.1566), translator Edward Bolland Osborn (1867-1967), commentator Jean de Bosschère (1878-1913), illustrator