The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus (The World's Classics No 558) by HERODOTUS; BAWDEN, Edward (illustrator) - 1962

The Heritage Press, 1958. Hardcover. Fine. Maps, Decorations In B/W, Colorplates. Two Volumes In Beige Cloth Decorated By Bawden, Spine Lettered In Gilt. A Beautiful Production. Fine; One Volume Lacking The Slipcase.

Haarlem: Printed for the Limited Editions Club by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1958. First edition thus. Hardcover. very good + to near fine. Octavo. xxviii, 615,(1)pp. Index. Brown cloth with an embossed cream cameo on front cover and a cream cloth, gilt, spine label. Housed in publisher's decorative paper covered cardboard slipcase, spine lettered in red. Title page within a color printed decorative border as are the titles of the 12 separate books. Illustrated with endpaper maps and one text map, and numerous text woodcuts by Edward Bawden. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies (this is #1363), signed on the limitation leaf by Edward Bawden. Spine of book slightly sunned and slipcase is sound but the paper covering it is split at the fore-edge as well as some of the joints, and the slipcase spine is slightly darkened. *Title continued "That men's actions may not in time be forgotten nor things great and wonderful, accomplished whether by Greeks or barbarians, go without report, nor, especially,… Read More

London, Oxford University Press, 1962. . Second Carter translation but first with this dust-jacket illustrated by Bawden, with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper; 12mo (155 x 100 mm); very mild toning, else fine; publishers' blue cloth, lettered in silver on the spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Bawden, dust-soiled, rubbed at extremities, a few faint drip stains and a short closed tear to upper panel, spine darkened and chipped at head but generally good and not price-clipped.