1937 Tg

Copies examined

Curwen Press: B37

Copies located

British Library: Document Supply 195*495*

Title page

[A]3r

[within a border of flowers] THE | PHILOSOPHY | OF LOVE | (Dialoghi d'Amore) | BY | LEONE EBREO | Translated into English by | F. FRIEDEBERG-SEELEY and | JEAN H. BARNES | With an Introduction by | CECIL ROTH | LONDON | THE SONCINO PRESS | 5 GOWER STREET | 1937

Imprint

[A]3v

Series

[A]1v

THIS IS THE SECOND BOOK ISSUED | IN CONNECTION WITH THE | SONCINO JEWISH PUBLICATION SOCIETY

Collation

[A]8B-Z 2A-2F8 2G10.

Pagination

[i-ix] x-xv [xvi,1] 2 [3] 4-64 [65] 66 [67] 68-193 [194-5] 196 [197] 198-468.

Technical description

Medium 8o: 9¼" × 5¾", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 12(+2)pt. Bembo; casing, green cloth, spine gold-blocked: ‘THE | PHILOSOPHY | OF LOVE | (Dialoghi D'Amore) | BY | LEONE EBREO | [at foot, the mark of the Soncino Press]’; printed dust-jacket.

Note

The author was a Jewish-Portuguese physician poet and philosopher, writing in Italian, around 1465-1523.

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963