| 103. Warlock, Peter and Jack Lindsay (editors) The Metamorphosis of Aiax by Sir John Harington
London: Fanfrolico Press, 1927 Royal Octavo. 143 pp.
No. 51 of 450 copies. Full title: [The Metamorphosis of Aiax; A New Discourse of a Stale Subject by Sir John Harington with an Anatomie of the Metamorphosed Aiax] Grey paper over boards with red text and design to spine and covers. Deckle edged handmade paper. "There is perhaps no work in our language which illustrates so admirably the twin-poles of gleeful fantasy and robust poetry on the one hand and of pragmatic curiousity on the other in the English character as The Metamorphosis of Aiax." [From the Introduction, page ix.]
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Condition: Chipping and bumping to head and tail of spine and corners, otherwise: Very Good
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