The Idyls of Theocritus (Vol. I)

Various artists/makers

1922

Not on view

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Title: The Idyls of Theocritus (Vol. I)
Author: Theocritus (Greek, Syracuse, Sicily, ca. 300 BCE–260 BCE)
Author: Bion (Greek, born Smyrna, Lydia, active 100 BCE)
Author: Moschus (Greek, active ca. 150 BCE)
Translator: Rendered into English prose by Andrew Lang (British, Selkirk, Scotland 1844–1912 Banchory)
Illustrator: William Russell Flint (British, Edinburgh, Scotland 1880–1969 London)
Designer: Title-page lettering by Edith M. Engall (British, active early 20th century)
Dedicatee: Ernest James Myers (British, Keswick 1844–1921 Burwash, Sussex)
Publisher: The Medici Society London, Liverpool, & Boston
Printer: Charles T. Jacobi (British, active early 20th century)
Printer: The Riccardi Press
Date: 1922
Medium: Illustrations: lithographs
Dimensions: 10 13/16 x 8 3/16 x 1 in. (27.5 x 20.8 x 2.5 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967
Object Number: 67.801.1(1–2)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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