Theocritus, Bion and Moschus /
Theocritus.
Theocritus.
Bion,of Phlossa near Smyrna.
Moschus.
Lang, Andrew,1844-1912,editor and translator.
Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur,1876-1938,former owner.StEdNL:  Bdg.s.929
McLeish, Charles,1859-1949,bookbinder.StEdNL:  Bdg.s.929
London : Macmillan and Co. and New York,
1889.
With a half-title page.
The title page features a mounted engraved medallion portrait done on India paper.
Also issued in a large paper edition of 250 copies.
The front pastedown has the armorial bookplate of "Twist". Manuscript inscription on the recto of the front free endpaper of F.L.M. Griggs, Campden, Gloucestershire".
Light brown goatskin by C. & C. Mcleish (signed on rear pastedown) featuring a spine with six raised bands and gilt titling. The top edge of the textblock is gilt and the other textblock edges have been left untrimmed. Born in 1859, Charles McLeish was apprenticed to Andrew Grieve in Edinburgh, then came to London in 1890 to work for Rivière. When Cobden-Sanderson founded the Doves Bindery in 1893, he hired McLeish as the firm's finisher. McLeish held that position until 1909, when he left to go into partnership with his son Charles, who had apprenticed under Roger de Coverly. The binding is therefore post 1909.
England London.