225: The Temptation of Saint Anthony A Dramatic Fantasy by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Lafcadio Hearn

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    The Temptation of Saint Anthony
    A Dramatic Fantasy by Gustave Flaubert, translated by Lafcadio Hearn
    The Allen Press, September 1974, Limited Edition

    ‘This book is one of an edition limited to one hundred forty copies, The type-faces are menhart unciala for the text, and solemnis for display; both types were set by hand. The mould-made rag paper is ‘Michelangelo’ from France, amd was printed damp on a Columbian handpress manufactures in 1846. The binding cloth, a fifteenth-century persian motif, is by fortuny, hand-blocked in Venice, Italy. Designed, printed and bound by Lewis and Dorothy Allen- Kentfield, California.’

    34,5 x 25 cm