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This 1943 Limited Editions Club production of Gustave Flaubert’s The Temptation of Saint Anthony, translated by Lafcadio Hearn, was designed and illustrated by American illustrator, and book and type designer Warren Chappell, and printed in New York by the Aldus Printers in an edition of 1500 copies signed by Chappell. The illustrations are lithographs in brilliant colors intended to be reminiscent of stained glass windows. The text is printed in Milwaukee-born Morris Fuller Benton’s 14 pt. Cloister type on rag paper especially produced for this production by the Worthy Paper Company in Mittineague, Mass. The binding by the Russell-Rutter bindery is full linen with a cross and snake device stamped in black, red, and gold.
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