Orpheus:

A Lyrical Legend

 

There are five different “editions” of this book. These are actually all from one typesetting and were so designated to impart a false idea of the book's popularity. This was apparently a common technique used to promote sales.

     

The first “edition” has white boards. The second “edition” has yellow boards and page reads “Second Edition.” The third “edition” has red boards and page reads “Third Edition.” The fourth “edition” has blue boards and page reads “Fourth Edition.” The fifth “edition” has olive-green boards and page reads “Fifth Edition.”

 

Published Date:

1905.

Publisher:

Society for the Propagation of Religious Truth (S.P.R.T.).

Printer:

Turnbull and Spears.

Published At:

Boleskine, Foyers, Inverness.

Pages:

Volume I: 156.

Volume II: 148.

Price:

State (c) priced at 1 crown per volume.

State (a):

1 copy printed on Roman vellum.

State (b):

Unknown number of copies printed on India paper and bound as one volume in white parchment boards.

State (c):

500 copies printed on Arnold unbleached hand-made paper and bound in two volumes. The two volumes are bound with linen backs in one of five different colored boards (white, yellow, red, blue or olive-green) depending on the “edition”.

 

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Contents

 

- Warning

- Exordium

- Liber Primus Vel Carminum

- Liber Secundus Vel Amoris

- Liber Tertius Vel Laboris

- Liber Quartus Vel Mortis

 

 

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