Description:
Artist's book including text illustrating the legends of Theseus and the Minotaur and Hercules and Omphale. Each of ten illustration incorporates etched vignettes surrounded by a blind-embossed maze on Somerset Book mould-made paper, with text printed letterpress. Ten four-page sections are inserted into a grey cloth cover and black slip-case. The edition includes an additional hand-colored print. Published by Circle Press, London.

Tags:
books; caves; creatures; deaths; decorations; heroes; illustrations; immortals; legends; literature; lovers; mythology; nudes; parasols; stories; temples; umbrellas; violence

Subjects:
Violence; Mythology; Etching; Decoration and ornament; Temples; Animals; illustrations (layout features); Literature; letterpress copies; nudes (representations); Books; Death; Umbrellas

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https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=UM+1980.26

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