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Title

Symposium of Plato = [Platōnos Symposion] / translated by Tom Griffith ; engraved by Peter Forster.

Author

Plato.

Publication

• Marlborough, Wiltshire, England : Libanus Press, 1986.
• ©1986

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Details

Additional Authors

• Griffith, Tom.
• Forster, Peter.
• Libanus Press, book designer.
• Smith Settle (Firm), bookbinder, printer.

Description

[142] unnumbered pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Alternative Title

Platōnos Symposion.

Subjects

• Love > Early works to 1800
• Socrates

Note

• The Greek title appears on the t.p. in Greek characters.
• Copy in Rare Books+ 21-758 has English title mounted on spine.
• Greek text and English translation on facing pages.
• "This edition is printed on Vélin d' Arches rag paper, & limited to three hundred and fifty-five copies for sale, numbered I to XL for the special copies, 41 to 340 for the standard copies, & A to O for the sets of unbound special sheets. This bindings are by Smith Settle" -- colophon.
• "Translation copyright Tom Griffith 1986" -- colophon.

Binding (note)

• Copy in Rare Books+ 21-758 bound in publisher's blue cloth over boards with original dust jacket.

Call Number

Rare Books 09-1912

ISBN

• 0948021063
• 9780948021060

LCCN

87182318

OCLC

15897013

Author

Plato.

Title

Symposium of Plato = [Platōnos Symposion] / translated by Tom Griffith ; engraved by Peter Forster.

Imprint

Marlborough, Wiltshire, England : Libanus Press, 1986.

Copyright Date

©1986

Binding

Copy in Rare Books+ 21-758 bound in publisher's blue cloth over boards with original dust jacket. NN

Local Note

Copy in Rare Books+ 21-758 is no. 264.

Rare Books copy is no. 178.

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Added Author

Griffith, Tom.

Forster, Peter.

Libanus Press, book designer.

Smith Settle (Firm), bookbinder, printer.

Added Title

Platōnos Symposion.

Research Call Number

Rare Books+ 21-758

Rare Books 09-1912