Lysis, or, Friendship ; The Symposium ; Phaedrus [SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR]

Plato; Benjamin Jowett (translator); Whitney J. Oates (preface); Eugene Karlin (illustrator). Lysis, or, Friendship ; The Symposium ; Phaedrus [SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR]. Mount Vernon, NY: Limited Editions Club, 1968. First edition thus. Quarto. xv, (1), 208, (2)pp. Plus 20 unnumbered leaves of plates. Goatskin vellum with brown calf spine label, over brown boards, front cover with a gilt vignette. Housed in publisher’s matching brown cardboard slipcase with gold paper spine label. Illustrated with 20 plates of line drawings. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies (this is #1363), printed at the Press of A. Colish, and signed on the limitation leaf by Eugne Karlin. Horizontal scratch on back cover of slipcase, otherwise a near fine copy. Near fine -. Hardcover. (50623) $75