Title: The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Author: Flaubert, Gustave
Description: Translated by Lafcadio Hearn. Edited by Francis Carmody. With 24 illustrations throughout; a full-page wood engraving of St. Anthony by Odilon Redon. 13¼x9½, decorative cloth in 15th-century Persian motif design with gold stylized Egyptian palm trees on green-blue background, by Fortuny, paper spine label, acetate cover. 1 of 140 copies printed on hand-made paper by the Allen Press.Allen Press Biblio. 40.
Heading: (Allen Press)Place Published: Kentfield, CA
Publisher: Allen Press
Date Published: 1974
Author: Flaubert, Gustave
Description: Translated by Lafcadio Hearn. Edited by Francis Carmody. With 24 illustrations throughout; a full-page wood engraving of St. Anthony by Odilon Redon. 13¼x9½, decorative cloth in 15th-century Persian motif design with gold stylized Egyptian palm trees on green-blue background, by Fortuny, paper spine label, acetate cover. 1 of 140 copies printed on hand-made paper by the Allen Press.Allen Press Biblio. 40.
Heading: (Allen Press)Place Published: Kentfield, CA
Publisher: Allen Press
Date Published: 1974
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Chips and tears to acetate; volume fine.
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Collection of Fine California Press Books
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