Longus

1925 · ref. 55130 — London: Geoffrey Bles 1925. 4to. 199 1 pp. Woodcut-engraved decorated title colour frontisp. 11 colour plates 4 black & white plates numerous woodcut-engraved text illustrations. Cream-coloured publisher’s cloth gilt lozenge on front cover gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art illust. by Austen lettering in blue chipping head & foot of spine minor tears to couple corners creasing dustsoiling still NF/G copy from library of Carlyle F. Streit 1904-1977 noted Cleveland Ohio furniture manufacturer and designer featuring bookplate by John Austen. First Austen illustrated edition of this Greek pastoral romance featuring the Thornley English translation drawn more from a 1605 Latin translation than the Greek original. Austen 1886-1948 was a popular English book illustrator whose early works draw more from Beardley influence but then shifted in 1925 as evidenced by these illustrations to a decidedly Art Deco technique. Geoffrey Bles, hardcover