English translation by Henry Cary. One of 475 numbered copies (this no.396). 8vo., original marbled paper covered boards, printed paper spine label, uncut, housed in a modern brown cloth slipcase with printed paper spine label. Paris, printed for The Pleiad under the supervision of Frederic Warde at the Officina Bodoni in Montagnola, Switzerland, 1926.
Socratic dialogue on the nature of justice, part of Plato's tetralogy on the trial of Socrates, consisting of Euthyphro, the Apology of Socrates, Crito, and Phaedo.
The first use of Frederic Warde's Arrighi typeface, the Arrighi-Vicenza italic, printed in Officina Bodoni's final year in Switzerland before it was moved to Verona. This was the second book involving a collaboration between Warde and Mardersteig, the first being The Calligraphic Models of Ludovico Vicentino. Mardersteig's admiration for Warde was obvious. He described him as an "outstanding American typographer" and said that "only rarely in later years did I similarly enjoy working with a colleague". A little rubbed at extremities, otherwise very good. Schmoller, The Officina Bodoni, no. 16.
