Description
From the Limited Editions Club, Plato’s The Trial and Death of Socrates.
Quarto, xiii, 275pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt over red on spine, image of Socrates stamped in gilt on front cover. Top edge stained blue. Pencil notations on front free endpaper with a few pencil marks in margins of text block. Light shelf wear to bottom edge of spine. Publisher’s original gray dust jacket, small tears and chipping along top edge. In the publisher’s original maroon slipcase, title printed on label attached to spine, light shelf wear. Signed on the limitation page by the engraver, Hans Erni, and the printer, Giovanni Mardersteig, from a limited edition of 1500 copies, this being number 1265. A nice example.