The golden ass
By: Apuleius ; translated by William Aldington.
Contributors: Aldington, William, fl. 1566.; Sampson, George, 1873-1950.; Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, artist.; Chiswick Press,; Bloomsbury Artists.; Library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Series: The Chiswick library of noble writers; Chiswick library of noble writers
Publisher: Printed at the Chiswick Press for George Bell and Sons
Published: 1904
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Other titles: Golden ass of Apuleius.; Apuleius.
Notes: Edited by George Sampson.

Engraved t.p. in red and black.

Reproduces the text of the first edition of Aldington's translation "Imprinted at London in Fleet Streate at the signe of the Oliphante by Henry Wykes. Anno 1566."

"Of this edition two hundred copies have been printed for sale ... and twenty for presentation"--cf. p. [1].

"Chiswick Press: Charles Whittingham and Co. ... London"--cf. p. [227].

002-103924205.

WSU MASC copy has an inked correction in the Table [of contents] p. 223, possibly added by the publisher.

WSU MASC copy is no. 18.

WSU MASC copy has pencil sketch of a nude made by Virginia Woolf on front flyleaf.