The Idyls of Theocritus (Vol. I)

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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