ARISTOPHANES. Lysistrata. Translated by Jack Lindsay. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay.

(London): The Fanfrolico Press, 1926. First edition thus. 39 × 28 cm. xii, 51 pages. One of the major Fanfrolico productions, uniting Jack Lindsay’s vigorous Englishing of Aristophanes with Norman Lindsay’s boldly sensuous graphic imagination. First performed in 411 BCE, Lysistrata is Aristophanes’ anti-war comedy in which the women of Greece, led by the eponymous heroine, declare a sex strike and seize the treasury on the Acropolis in an effort to force an end to the Peloponnesian War. The play’s mixture of political satire, bawdy humour, and choric spectacle finds a fitting counterpart in Lindsay’s exuberant illustrations. Illustrated with full-page collotype plates and numerous in-text vignettes. Printed on Batchelor’s handmade paper at the Chiswick Press.  A very good copy in publisher’s original half morocco over gilt-decorated cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt; top edge gilt, others uncut; patterned endpapers. Issued in a limited edition of 725 numbered copies, each signed by Jack Lindsay.