Item #106972 Mele [Songs]. Sappho.

Mele [Songs].

1922. [Munich: Bremer Press, 1922].

Slim 4to, [16]pp. plus blanks at front and back. Text in Greek. Original blue boards, printed label on upper cover, a very good copy.

§ Edition limited to 500 copies in all, printed entirely in Greek in a gorgeous Greek typeface on handmade paper. A small number of copies were issued in a stiff vellum binding stamped in gold.

A selection of the lyrical poems of Sappho. The Bremer Press operated from 1911-39, directed by Willy Wiegand. In the manner of the Doves Press, Wiegand rejected ornament and illustration and sought beauty in the choice of typeface and the quality of the printing. Item #106972

Price: $750.00

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