Marius the Epicurean
PATER, Walter
His Sensations and Ideas.
1000 COPIES WERE PRINTED: WITH ORIEL COLLEGE BOOKPLATE
Published: Philip Lee Warner [for] Medici Society, 1913
Stock code: 41023
Price: £224.00
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with framed title, free endpapers mildly browned; original dove-grey boards lettered in gilt, oatmeal cloth backs lettered in gilt, gilt tops, green silk markers, uncut, covers mildly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy.
EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 196). A PRESENTATION COPY FROM ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD, WITH THE COLLEGE'S RED LEATHER BOOKPLATE BLOCKED IN GILT ON FRONT PASTE-DOWNS AND LATIN INSCRIPTION IN MS ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER OF FIRST VOLUME. The recipient was Miralai Jose Campbell Penney, who served subsequently with the Sudan Defence Force, and was awarded the OBE in December 1941. The bookplates are offset to front free endpapers.