[King Library Press] The Kikkuli Text on The Training of Horses

The Kikkuli Text on The Training of Horses (ca. 1350 B.C.). Translated from the German by Gerhard F. Probst. Lexington, KY: The King Library Press, 2010. Second edition. Limited to 150 copies, of which this is #85. "The text has been set in Caslon on photopolymer plates, printed by hand, and sewn in a Japanese binding evoking the cuneiform wedge." A new foreword by Peter Raulwing and Dr. Joachim Marzahn has been added in this second edition. Original sage green stringbound wrappers. King Library Press bookmark loosely inserted.

The first English edition was published in 1977 by The King Library Press, designed by Carolyn Hammer and printed by Sallie Ruff. As noted on the colophon, "[i]n her review for The Chronicle of the Horse, Dr. Mary Aiken Littauer suggested that the 'artist's book' was beautiful, but impractical, and that Dr. Probst's notes were more properly an introduction. This second edition is an attempt to heed her suggestions, including line-drawing illustrations depicting the Hittite chariot after the Egyptian bas-relief of the battle of Qadesh, ca. 1294 B.C.E." 

Measures approx. 13.75" x 10.75". Stain to the central front cover, along with a smaller stain to lower left corner. Some light creases and rubbing to edges & corners of covers.