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‎The true historie of Lucian the Samosatenian. Translated from the Greek into English by Francis Hickes with an introduction by J.S. Phillimore M.A. LL.D. together with the greek text and decorated with wood engravings by Robert Gibbings.‎

‎Golden Cockerel Press, 1927, lg. in-4to, 5 ll. + 43 p. + 1 ll., illustrated with woodcuts, topedge gilt, others untrimmed, N° 249 / out of 275 copies, 2 ex-libris ‘Charles Willard Stage’ & ‘John.-E. Ward’, + small booksellers ticket on verso-inside ‘Philip C. Duschnes Rare Books New York’. quarter brown morocco, spine on 5 bands with title gilt, spine slightly sunned. Binding signed ’Sangorski and Sutcliffe’. Fine copy.‎

‎Colophon: ‘This book was printed by Robert Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire and completed on the 10th Day of November 1927. The text of the Greek, set with the assistance of the Oxford University Press, is that of the Jacobitz Edition (1852). The English is taken from the first edition (1634) in the British Museum. This edition is limited to 275 copies, of which this is number (handwritten:) 249. image disp.‎