Daphnis & Chloe

Multiple artists/makers

1925

Not on view

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Title: Daphnis & Chloe
Author: Ascribed to Longus (Greek, active 3rd century CE)
Translator: George Thornley (British, born 1614)
Artist: John Archibald Austen (British, Kent 1886–1948 Kent)
Publisher: Geoffrey Bles (London)
Printer: Butler & Tanner (Frome, Somerset, and London)
Date: 1925
Medium: Illustrations: lithographs, color lithographs
Dimensions: 10 3/16 x 8 x 1 3/8 in. (25.9 x 20.3 x 3.5 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1965
Object Number: 65.680.1
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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