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(ASHENDENE PRESS.) Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Translated into English by Benjamin Jowett, M.A. Late Master of Balliol College and Regius, Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford. Printed in red and black from Ptolemy and Blado Italic type with initials designed by Graily Hewitt, shoulder notes in red. Folio, original full white pigskin by W.H. Smith & Son (signed), 7 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 3 compartments, usual mild natural discoloration and few soil marks to covers and edges, bump to rear cover center and upper tip; internally clean. Chelsea, 1930
one of 260 unnumbered copies on paper and the last folio printed by the great press. The elegant side notes are printed in red Blado Italic and Hewitt's initials are from the alphabet designed by Eric Gill for "Utopia," 1906--Franklin, The Ashendene Press, page 186; see also 242; Ashendene Bibliography 37.
