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APULEIUS. THE GOLDEN ASS OF APULEIUS. 1928–1937. (ML 88)

167. First printing (1928)

Pp. [i–iv] v–xvii [xviii], 1–301 [302]. [1–10]¹⁶

[i] half title; [ii] pub. note D5; [iii] title; [iv] First Modern Library Edition | 1928 | [short double rule]; v–vii translator’s dedication; [viii] blank; ix–xii TO THE READER; xiii–xv THE LIFE OF LUCIUS APULEIUS BRIEFLY | DESCRIBED; [xvi] blank; xvii THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR | TO HIS SON FAUSTINUS | AND UNTO THE READERS OF THIS BOOK; [xviii] blank; 1–301 text; [302] blank.

Jacket: Uniform typographic jacket D.

Text on front: “The first of a selection of great classics, hitherto unobtainable in a popular edition, be added to the Modern Library.” (Fall 1928)

ML edition printed from plates made from a new typesetting. Published November 1928. WR 1 December 1928. First printing: Not ascertained. Discontinued fall 1937.

Cerf invited Edmund Wilson to write an introduction to The Golden Ass and offered the ML’s standard $50 fee. “For a long time I have been meaning to ask you to write an introduction for one of our new additions to the Modern Library. . . . If you would rather write an introduction for another of the new titles, that could be arranged” (Cerf to Wilson, 18 July 1928). Wilson either declined or did not respond.

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