CORVINUS PRESS: GOLDING, Louis.

£400 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Song of Songs. First edition, signed limited issue, number 10 of 178 copies. Golding's interpretation of the Biblical poem stages it as a masque, with the spoken text and stage directions printed in contrasting colours. "The use of three colours for the text, coupled with the large format and higher price suggest that Carlow saw this book as the first important public production of his Press. It is, typographically, very beautiful" (Nash & Flavell, p. 33). This is the first appearance of the text, which was later published in a trade edition.

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