A Revised Latin Text of the Satyricon, Illustrated by Norman Lindsay (First Limited Edition, Signed)

A$650 · Offered by Harry Hartog Rare Books

Signed · Limited edition

PETRONIUS, Caius Arbiter. A Revised Latin Text of the Satyricon with the Earliest English Translation (1694) by William Burnaby, Now First Reprinted with an Introduction by Sir Stephen Gaselee, Together with One Hundred Illustrations by Norman Lindsay. London: Privately Printed by Ralph Straus, 1910. Folio (33 x 26 cm). Original publisher's quarter vellum and blue paper boards, gilt titling to spine, titling in black to upper cover. Frontispiece, xv, 303 pp., 100 full-page plates. Latin text on verso with English translation facing on recto throughout. Upper edge gilt, others uncut. Limited to 265 copies (250 for sale to subscribers), number 86. Signed by Norman Lindsay and Ralph Straus. A brilliant and challenging work that occupies a distinguished position in the history of controversial publications. The love-child of two brilliant figures, Ralph Straus and Norman Lindsay, Burnaby's translation of Petronius's Satyricon formed the perfect basis of an audacious publishing venture. For Straus, London bibliophile and man of letters, this was an act of rescue for a stagnant era. For Lindsay, only 28 and already one of Australia's most controversial artists, this represented an opportunity to push his craft and style into the wider world. Lindsay and Petronius form a natural pairing. Gaius Petronius Arbiter — courtier, aesthete, and self-described arbiter of elegance at the court of Nero — wrote the Satyricon as a mock-epic of Roman low life, its pages alive with feasting, desir

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