722. Gay, John
The Beggar's Opera

Signed by Mariette Lydis.
Illustrated by Mariette Lydis.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1937
Small Folio.

No. 1111 of 1500.

75/150     SOLD: $92.00

723. Confucius
The Analects of Confucius

Shanghai: Limited Editions Club, 1933
Quarto. 114 pp.

No. 12 of 1500. Lein-sze paper, handmade of linen rag. The binding is Chinese brocade and the box, which is Chinese redwood, was handmade, carved and enameled in China.

250/500     SOLD: $316.25

724. James, Henry
The Portrait of a Lady

Signed by Colleen Browning.
Illustrated by Colleen Browing.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1967
Quarto.

No. 280 of 1500.
Maroon spine, marbled covered boards.

50/100     SOLD: $34.50

725. Gilbert Bagnani, editor
Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter

Illustrated by Antonio Sotomayor.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964
Signed Limited Edition. Super Royal Octavo. 272 pp.

Signed Limited Edition, No. 280 of 1500. Signed by Sotomayor who includes two-color illustrations, two double-spread and eight full-page drawn in wash, and forty part-page drawings in line. The binding is of imported natural-grain goatskin vellum on spine, stamped in gold, boards are covered with mould-made Fabriano paper.

50/100     SOLD: $57.50

726. Aeschylus
The Oresteia

Illustrated by Michael Ayrton.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961
Signed Limited Edition. (10 x 13). 224 pp.

Signed Limited Edition, No. 280 of 1500. Signed by illustrator, Ayrton, who includes twelve full-page illustrations, painted in oils. E. D. A. Morshead, translator. Binding is stained cowhide, sides of boards are covered with a natural-finish cloth, and same fabric serves as a label on spine.

50/100     SOLD: $57.50

727. Plato
The Trial and Death of Socrates

Illustrated by Hans Erni.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962
Signed Limited Edition. Imperial Octavo. 292 pp.

Signed Limited Edition, No. 280 of 1500. Signed by designer, Giovanni Mardersteig and illustrator, Hans Erni - who has included some two dozen powerful drawings in line. Benjamin Jowett, translator. Binding performed in Italy, boards covered in full dark-blue buckram; backstrip is stamped with title in red and gold, front cover is gold-stamped with a head of Socrates drawn by Mr. Erni.

50/100     SOLD: $103.50

728. Tranquillus, Gaius Suetonius
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

Illustrated by Salvatore Fiume.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1963
Signed Limited Edition. Super Royal Octavo. 528 pp.

Signed Limited Edition, No. 280 of 1500. Signed by designer, Giovanni Mardersteig and illustrator, Salvatore Fiume. Fiume includes a dozen full-color paintings, as well as a medallion portrait of each of the twelve Caesars. Priniting and binding done in Verona. Backstrip is wine-colored Italian linen stamped in gold, and the boards are covered in a decorative wood-blocked paper, hand made.

75/150     SOLD: $69.00

729. Apuleius
The Golden Ass

Illustrated by Percival Goodman.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1932
Signed Limited Edition. Royal Octavio. 392 pp.

Signed Limited Edition, No. 1321 of 1500. Signed by illustrator, Percival Goodman, who includes numerous black-and-white pencil drawings. Jack Lindsey, translator. Binding and boards are covered in natural cowhide, shelfback is titled and stamped in gold.

50/100     SOLD: $69.00

730. Euripides
Medea, Hippolytus, and The Bacchae

Illustrated by Michael Ayrton.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1967
Signed Limited Edition. Broad Quarto. 240 pp.

Signed Limited Edition, No. 280 of 1500. Signed by illustrator, Michael Ayrton. Philip Vellacott, translator. Sixteen full-page monochrome wash drawings, reproduce in gravure. The cover sides are of a terra-cotta hand-made Italian paper called Roma; the spine is a natural canvas with a gold-stamped label.

50/100     SOLD: $34.50

731. Epictetus
The Discourses of Epictetus

Illustrated by Hans Erni.
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1966
Signed Limited Edition. Imperial Octavo. 366 pp.

Signed Limited Edition, No. 280 of 1500. Signed by illustrator, Hans Erni. P.E. Matheson, translator. Eighteen illustrations: six water color paintings (five are double-spreads), and a dozen line-drawings. Hans Erni has created three symbolic drawings for the cover dies, which are stamped in gold on heavy black buckram: the sun's face on the front cover, the crescent moon's on the back, and a fig branch on the spine - the title is printed on a green shelfback.

50/100     SOLD: $80.50