[Binding]. Aristophanes.

The Wasps of Aristophanes As Performed at Cambridge November 19-24, 1897. With the verse translation by Benjamin Bickley Rogers, M.A.

Cambridge: Printed for the Committee at the University Press and sold by Macmillan and Bowes, 1897. With Greek and English texts on facing pages. Spine lightly faded, some light discoloration to portions of covers. A very good copy. Later bookplate. Finely bound by Elsé Hoffman for the Guild of Women Binders in full reddish-brown morocco, with gilt spine. Gilt single rules on both covers, with blindstamped leaf decorations. Octavo. xii, 119, [1] pp. Item #13823

Marian Titcombe mentions the work of Elsé Hoffman in Women Bookbinders 18801920 (pp. 29, 170-1, figure 129).

Price: $650.00