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Eros and Psyche, a Poem in XII Measures … with Wood-cuts from Designs by Edward Burne-Jones.

[Gregynog], The Gregynog Press, 1935.

Large 4to, pp. [8], 141, [3], printed in green, red, and black, with engraved illustrations after drawings by Burne-Jones; a fine copy in the publisher’s cream pigskin, gilt (covers slightly spotted as often).

£1500

Approximately:
US $1875  €1752

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One of 300 copies, one of the most beautiful works from this press, with three-colour initials and a new typeface (used only in this volume) by Graily Hewitt.

Burne-Jones’s drawings had initially been made to accompany William Morris’s Cupid but were never used.

Franklin, p. 217.

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