[Fine Binding | The French Binders | Elston Press | Illuminated] Daphnis and Chloe Roycrofters Five bands to spine with

Five bands to spine with title and author to second compartment

and remarkable example

Light browning to pages

As is the case with all Broca bindings that come to market

an elaborate symmetrical gilt-tooled foliate strapwork design: large sweeps of curling acanthus-like leaves and tendrils

[Fine Binding | The French Binders | Elston Press | Illuminated] Daphnis and Chloe Roycrofters Five bands to spine withLongus (Angell Daye, trans.). Daphnis and Chloe. New Rochelle, NY: Elston Press, 1904. One of 160 unnumbered copies printed by Clarke Conwell. "The text, here newly printed, is the text of a unique copy, dated 1587, of Angell Day's translation from Amyot's version of the Greek of Longus." Printed in red and black. All initials and the four woodcut illustrations by H. M. O'Kane have been beautifully illuminated in gold and colors, with thick tissue