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Gilgamesh - LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB 1974
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No.456 of 2000
Translated by William Ellery Leonard.
Eight full-page and one double-spread colour woodcuts and seven monochrome woodcuts by Irving Amen who signed the book.
Introduced by Leonard Cotterell.
Designed by Robert L.Dothard.
Printed at The Stinehour Press, Vermont.
Plain white endpapers.
Bound in yellow cloth with title printed on spine in brown, front cover stamped with facsimile clay tablet.
Brown slipcase with yellow paper title label on edge.
105 pages
34.1x23.5cm.
US$170 on secondary market
A 4,000-year-old Mesopotamian poem following the tyrant/hero king of Uruk, Gilgamesh. After the gods create the wild man Enkidu as his equal, they become friends, slay the monster Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven, and provoke the gods to cause Enkidu's death. It also contains an account of a great deluge, presumably the same one that is detailed by Noah in the book of Genesis.
The Monthly Letter for this book can be downloaded HERE.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed HERE.
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No.456 of 2000
Translated by William Ellery Leonard.
Eight full-page and one double-spread colour woodcuts and seven monochrome woodcuts by Irving Amen who signed the book.
Introduced by Leonard Cotterell.
Designed by Robert L.Dothard.
Printed at The Stinehour Press, Vermont.
Plain white endpapers.
Bound in yellow cloth with title printed on spine in brown, front cover stamped with facsimile clay tablet.
Brown slipcase with yellow paper title label on edge.
105 pages
34.1x23.5cm.
US$170 on secondary market
A 4,000-year-old Mesopotamian poem following the tyrant/hero king of Uruk, Gilgamesh. After the gods create the wild man Enkidu as his equal, they become friends, slay the monster Humbaba and the Bull of Heaven, and provoke the gods to cause Enkidu's death. It also contains an account of a great deluge, presumably the same one that is detailed by Noah in the book of Genesis.
The Monthly Letter for this book can be downloaded HERE.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed HERE.
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Thanks for another splendid review! I read Gilgamesh in an abridged version when I had a Comparative Literature course as an undergraduate. It was fascinating to compare this poem with the Noah story and Donnelly's Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. I acquired the LEC much later (of course), and have never gotten around to reading it. The production values are superb, as your photos attest, but I haven't cared for the illustrations. I'm not sure I can explain why I don't, but your review has prompted me to put my feelings aside and read it this week.
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