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Prometheus bound / by Aeschylus; translated by Rex Warner & Prometheus unbound, by Percy Bysshe Shelley.: PB 218-2003

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Titles

Prometheus bound / by Aeschylus; translated by Rex Warner & Prometheus unbound, by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Maker(s)

Author: Aeschylus
Author: Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Contributor: Warner, Rex
Illustrator: Farleigh, John
Publisher: Limited Editions Club
Designer: Clewits, Hendrik
Printer: Joh. Enschedé en Zonen

Categories

Description

With a preface by Rex Warner and drawings by John Farleigh.

Xviii, [1], 16, [1]1 p : illus ; 29 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Haarlem

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1965

Note

Limited edition of 1500 copies of which Museum has copy "J.D." Bound in tan and light-blue buckram with front and back cover decorations, spine titles and decorations stamped in gilt. In slipcase (blue paper over card).

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Illustrations

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 218-2003
Primary reference Number: 95635
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 September 2012 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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