The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
Subtitle: a new translation
By: by F.L. Lucas ; with ten engravings by Mark Severin
Contributors: Lucas, F. L. (Frank Laurence), 1894-1967, translator; Severin, Mark F., illustrator; Sandford, Christopher, book designer; Golden Cockerel Press; Sangorski & Sutcliffe; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: The Golden Cockerel Press
Published: 1948
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng; gre
Number of pages: 35
Subjects: Poetry
Notes: English and Greek.

Rare Book copy: No. 12, signed by the translator.

Includes bibliographical references.

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Includes English and Greek texts.

Rare Book copy: Bound in full red goatskin, sewn on five recessed supports; upper and lower covers with gilt figures of Greek deities at the center; spine with two false raised bands, with gilt lettering and publisher's devices; turn-ins gilt with a single-line fillet border; top edge gilt; two-color silk endbands; signed "Bound by S. & S., London" at tail end of upper turn-in.
Table of contents: title: "Designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, London, in Poliphilus Roman and New Hellenic Greek types on Arnold's mould-made paper. Composition and presswork under the supervision of F.J. Newbery at the Chiswick Press ... The edition is limited to 750 copies. Nos. 1-100 have been specially bound."; title: Colophon.