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Apuleius.Marriage of Cupid/Psyches,1/50,inscr

Apuleius (Lucius) The Most Pleasant and Delectable Tale of the Marriage of Cupid and Psyches,

translated by William Adlington, number 4 of 50 copies signed by the artist, copper-engraved plates by John Buckland Wright, tissue guards, signed and inscribed by Buckland Wright "...to my friend Michael Travers...March 1949" on front free endpaper, original pictorial limp vellum, gilt, uncut, spine slightly soiled and boards a little mottled, JBW patterned-paper board slip-case, slightly rubbed, [Reid A20], 8vo, printed by Joh.Enschedé of Haarlem for JBW Editions, 1936.