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Jean de Bosschere - The Golden Asse, Limited Illustrated Edition, 1923

Jean de Bosschere - The Golden Asse, Limited Illustrated Edition, 1923

Limited Illustrated Book
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A richly illustrated 1923 edition of Apuleius's The Golden Asse, translated by William Adlington with an introduction by E. B. Osborn. Jean de Bosschere's color and black-and-white plates bring an Art Deco and symbolist intensity to the only complete ancient Roman novel to survive in Latin.

Author: Lucius Apuleius

Translator: William Adlington

Illustrator: Jean de Bosschere

Publisher: John Lane, The Bodley Head, London

Date: 1923

Format: Decorated cloth hardcover, approximately 25.1 × 16.5 × 3.5 cm, 282 pages plus preliminaries and advertisements

Illustrations: Sixteen full-page plates, including eight color plates, with additional decorations

Edition: Limited to 3,000 numbered copies; the number of this source copy is not shown

Condition: graded 8.5/10

Number, completeness and binding: unverified.

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