Plato The Limited Editions Club Edition
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“For the unexamined life is not worth living”: The Limited Editions Club Edition of Plato's The Trial and Death of Socrates; Signed by Illustrator Hans Erni and Printer Giovanni Mardersteig and Finely Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
PLATO; HANS ERNI [ILLUSTRATOR] GIOVANNI MARDERSTEIG [PRINTER],.
The Trial and Death of Socrates.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1962.
The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of this collection of four dialogues written by Plato recounting the death of Socrates. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, with color illustrations. Boldly signed by illustrator Hans Erni and printer Giovanni Mardersteig of Verona at the Officina Bodoni on the colophon page at the rear. One of 1,500 numbered copies, this is number 437. In fine condition. Translated from the Greek, with introductory analyses, by Benjamin Jowett. Preface by Huntington Cairns. Illustrated by Hans Erni.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 148539
