Quarto. [2], xvi, 213pp, [1]. With a half-title, an engraved frontispiece and one further engraved plate. Original publisher's gilt-stamped vellum, lettered in red and black. A trifle rubbed, lightly discoloured, spine dulled. Scattered spotting. Limited edition, inked inscription to verso of title page: 'Twenty-five copies of this book have been printed on Large Paper. Each one is numbered and signed by me, this Copy being No. XXIII. Henry T. Wharton. May 3. 1887'.

The second, strictly limited, edition of the book (first published in 1885) for which Henry Thornton Wharton (1846-1895) is best remembered, an admirable work on Sappho containing a life of the poet and a selection of translations of her verse. This copy, inscribed by the author, is marked as 'No. XXIII", or 23, of 25. Noted for restoring feminine pronouns to Sappho's verse, Wharton provided the first translation rendering the subject in the Ode to Aphrodite as undoubtedly female.