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Two hardcover volumes housed in original custom slipcase lettered in gold. Books are bound in quarter buckram with paper-coverd boards illustrated with a design by Grahame Baker. Pagination continues across both volumes, 700 pages. Introduction by Kenneth McLeish. Illustrated with full page black and white plates by Grahame Baker and map end-papers by Denys Baker. Index present at the end of volume II. Fifth Folio Society printing. An encyclopedically structured retelling of the Greek myths, with each God or Goddess introduced at their births and their stories retold in individualized vignettes rather than a continually flowing narrative. Graves also provides an erudite and academically sourced critique at the end of each myth expounding his own interpretation of the “historical, anthropological, and religious meanings behind the stories.” No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked and apparently unread copy, like new. A beautiful as new set in like slipcase. Domestic mail only without prior arrangement.