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Boston: Philip Lee Warner. Very Good- with no dust jacket. N.D.. Hardcover. Light cover wear including two light spot on spine. Bumped lower corners to cover. 11 tipped in color plates by Flint. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 167 pages .

London: The Medici Society ; Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1929. Later Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Some wear and tear as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Includes a previous owner's inscription. Physical description; 166 pages. Subjects; Mythology, Greek ; Juvenile literature. Genres; Illustrated. Novel.

London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to The Medici Society Ltd,, 1912. First Flint edition, number 463 of 500 copies printed on handmade paper There were also 12 copies printed on vellum. Lancelyn Green stated that "no one has caught the magic and the music and the wonder of the old Greek legends as Kingsley did" (p. 132), and Kingsley's collection is perfectly complemented in this edition by Flint's illustrations. Gardner notes that reprints of this title in the 1920s only included nine of Russell Flint's original 12 colour plates. The 15 stories feature Perseus, Theseus, and the Argonauts. Quarto. Original full limp vellum, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, original green cotton ties, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, cream silk bookmarker. Later slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 11 coloured plates, with captioned tissue guards, all by Russell Flint. Minor colour variance to vellum, as usual; a fine copy. Keith S. Gardner, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Unsigned Limited Edition… Read More