1927 Woman, A Satire

Description

Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

With eight plates of collotype illustrations depicting female nudes from artist R. B. Brooks-Greaves. With a tissue guard to each plate bearing an informative description of what is depicted, as it relates to the views of Juvenal. Collated, complete.

This is no. 21 of 500 copies on deckled-edged antique laid paper.

Roman poet Juvenal's satire on women, subtitled 'a satire in the form of an epistle, addressed by Juvenal to his friend Postumus on hearing of his intended marriage'.

With a lengthy introduction from F. A. Wright, a British translator whose most notable work was 'Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle'. The introduction covers misogyny in literature and the role and rights of women in Roman society.