Circe and Ulysses, the Inner Temple Masque presented by the Gentlemen there January 13, 1614.

Name: Circe and Ulysses, the Inner Temple Masque presented by the Gentlemen there January 13, 1614.
Author: [GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]; BROWNE, William; SEVERIN, Mark.

Book Description

Number 57 of 100 specially bound copies with 4 extra engravings, from an overall limitation of 300; large 8vo (235 x 150 mm.); wood-engraved frontispiece, title vignette, 5 full-page illustrations and 4 additional plates, all by Mark Severin, book label to lower fore-corner of front pastedown, and bookseller’s small sticker to rear pastedown; full green morocco with gilt designs by Severin to covers and lettered in gilt to spine, top edge gilt, others uncut, spine slightly browned, but overall a very good copy.

Dealer Notes

An attractive copy of this special issue, handsomely bound in full green morocco and with further wood-engraved plates by Mark Severin that were not included in the remaining two hundred copies. The masque was for the one of the Jacobean festal performances in London, derived from Homer’s Odyssey, and performed ‘to an audience which crowded the Inner Temple hall. After the event, part of the cloisters had to be repaired, having been “broken down by such as climbed up at the windows of the hall to see the mask”’ (ODNB).

Provenance: Charles Willard Stage (1868-1946), US attorney & politician (book label).

Author [GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]; BROWNE, William; SEVERIN, Mark.

Date 1954

Binding Full green morocco with gilt designs

Publisher Golden Cockerel Press

Illustrator SEVERIN, Mark.

Condition VG

Price: £550.00

Offered by Shapero Rare Books Ltd

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