1930 Patchwork Quilt: Poems by Decimus Magnus Ausonius

Description

First Edition, Limited Edition, Original Binding

Limited edition of 400 copies, of which this is number 59. 

In the original blind-stamped cloth binding. 

Comprising the works of Roman poet and teacher of rhetoric, Decimus Magnus Ausonius, including The Moselle, Patchwork Quilt for a Nuptial Bed and Bissula. 

From the Fanfrolico Press, a London-based private press founded by Jack Lindsay, John Kirtley and P. R. Stephensen that operated from 1923-1930. 

Decorated with vignettes by Edward Bawden, an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist. Together with his wife, he was a principal member of the Great Bardfield Artists, a community of artists influential in the art scene of England during the mid-20th century.