The republic
By: Plato ; translated out of the Greek by Benjamin Jowett, with his introduction, analyses, and summary ; and with medallions cut on wood by Fritz Kredel.
Contributors: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893.; Kredel, Fritz, 1900-1973.; Rosenwald, Edith Goodkind, donor.; Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Heritage Press
Published: 1944
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 622
Subjects: Political science -- Early works to 1800; Utopias
Notes: Ransom, W.  Selective check lists of press books, p. 99
"All of the special contents of this edition are copyright, 1944, by the Limited Editions Club"--Prelim. p. [4].
"Fritz Kredel has made the woodcuts which embellish the beginnings of the various sections of this edition. His medallions contains symbolic portraits of the figures which dominate The republic"--Prelim. p. [9].
LC copy has The Heritage Club Sandglass, number 4H laid in.
Source: Bequest of Edith G. Rosenwald, Jan. 23, 1989.