The Phaedo of Plato / translated into English by Benjamin Jowett.
Alternate Title(s):
Phaedo. English
Published / Created:
Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire : Printed and published at the Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXX [1930]
Physical Description:
[2], 78, [2] pages ; 28 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts B379.A5 J69 1930+ Oversize Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Two variants of the title page exist. One gives the name of the translator as William Jowett, a misprint. Later printings have the corrected name, Benjamin Jowett."This book was printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, & completed on the 25th day of February, 1930. The text is reprinted by permission of the Oxford University Press. The ornaments and initial letters are by Eric Gill. Compositors: A.H. Gibbs and F. Young. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. The edition is limited to 500 copies."--Colophon.Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 69BAC: British Art Center has no. 420 of 500. With the corrected title page and name, Benjamin Jowett. Bound in publisher's original blue buckram.BEIN 1975 1952: No. 477. With corrected t.p. Bookplate of Douglas Maxwell Moffat.BEIN 1997 +187: No. 235. With uncorrected t.p. Laid in is corrected version of t.p. (with p. 15-16), and two items of correspondence relating to the misprint (dated Apr. 29 and June 13, 1930).
Subject Terms:
Immortality (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800. | Private press books -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence -- Specimens. | Moffat, Douglas Maxwell -- Bookplate. | Hugo, Harold -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence. | Wood engravings -- 1930.
Contributors:
Gibbings, Robert, 1889–1958, printer. | Gibbings, Moira, printer. | Cooper, A. C. (Albert C.), pressman. | Gill, Eric, 1882–1940, illustrator. | Jowett, Benjamin, 1817–1893, translator. | Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.