A translation from the Greek of Musaeus by the distinguished classical scholar, critic, writer and Bletchley Park codebreaker, Frank L Lucas, and illustrated with engraved plates by John Buckland Wright, it was one of 100 copies (from an edition of 500) that contained an extra plate and were specially bound in vellum.
Heroic price at 10 times top estimate
Given a modest estimate of £100-150 in a January 3 sale at Oxfordshire auction house Jones & Jacob (18% buyer’s premium), an edition of Hero & Leander published in 1949 by Christopher Sandford sold instead at £1500.