Folio Society Published Works Number 3546
Sappho Translated by Anne Carson - If Not, Winter Fragments of Sappho
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Sappho Translated by Anne Carson - If Not, Winter Fragments of Sappho (Published in by The Folio Society in 2019. Sappho's complete surviving oeuvre is translated faithfully for the first time, by poet and renowned scholar Anne Carson, in this exquisite new Folio Society letterpress edition. Anne Carson's beautiful, brave and unadorned translation of Sappho's complete surviving work is printed letterpress throughout to evoke the original papyrus fragments onto which the words were transcribed. In a careful consideration of the text, this large-format edition presents the English translation of each fragment facing the original ancient Greek, each page individually typeset so the spacing and breaks are precisely replicated. Bound in blocked cloth with inset letterpress printed label. Set in Aria Text and letterpress printed. 416 pages. Colour frontispiece. Pictorial slipcase. Gilded page tops.
Ribbon marker. 10" x 7". )
