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The symposium on love : or, The banquet : a dialogue of Plato / translated by Percy B. Shelley.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Peter Pauper Press 59
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Plato, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Symposium. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love--Philosophy.
- Love.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Estienne.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 83 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Symposium on love
- Banquet
- Place of Publication:
- Mount Vernon, New York : The Peter Pauper Press, [1944?]
- Notes:
- "The present translation ... was first published in "Essays, letters from abroad, translations and fragments" 1840. It is here set in the Estienne types, and printed in an edition of 1850 copies on specially-made Peter Pauper Press paper"--Colophon.
- Illustrated title page.
- In slipcase.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.
- Cited in:
- Donnelly & Dobkin, 556 (page 153)
- OCLC:
- 255329649
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