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New York: Land's End Press, 1968. Limited edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 1/1500. Folio (12 1/2 x 9 1/2"). 90, [2]pp. Original gilt-stamped decorative cloth, with gold lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Aristophanes. Title page in orange, purple and black lettering. Limitation page numbered and signed by Jack Brussel. Book housed in its original black slipcase, with illustrated title to front panel. "Lysistrata" is a bawdy anti-war comedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes, first staged in 411 BCE. It is the comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War, as Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate a peace. Some consider it his greatest work, and it is probably the most anthologized. This limited edition is lavishly illustrated throughout with erotic illustrations by Audrey Beardsley and ancient Athenian artists. One of 1500 signed copies,…
Read More Lysistrata. Ein Lustspiel in Fünf Akten. Mit neun Zeichnungen von Aubrey Beardsley by [BEARDSLEY, Aubrey]. ARISTOPHANES - 1905
by [BEARDSLEY, Aubrey]. ARISTOPHANES
Lysistrata. Ein Lustspiel in Fünf Akten. Mit neun Zeichnungen von Aubrey Beardsley
by [BEARDSLEY, Aubrey]. ARISTOPHANES
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[Germany: privately printed, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. [Germany, privately printed, circa 1905]. Folio, 94 pages printed in red and black plus 9 full-page erotic illustrations printed in red. Original gilt-pictorial full morocco, top edge gilt, others uncut; covers unevenly sunned (apparently an endemic problem with this edition); extremities rubbed and a trifle worn, with minor restoration to the spine ends; small light marks to the bottom margin of five consecutive pages; a very good copy. Number 26 from a privately-printed edition of only 200 copies on Zanders laid paper; the translation is by Johannes Minckwitz.
- Bookseller Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher privately printed
- Place of Publication [Germany
- Date Published 1905
- Keywords WEB3MT, PHD, PERM, R119MT, MBF13HLMTe, R120MT, (unsoldsR110-119, @, $550), WEB39MT, GERMANY, ART, ILLUSTRATION, GERMAN, BEARDSLEY