Cupid and Psyche
By Walter Pater
Published by Faber and Faber in 1977
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Illustration work:
Pictorial boards, decorated title page, 1 double page
and 21 full page black and white halftone illustrations.
Synopsis (taken
from back cover)
The princess Psyche was so beautiful that Venus, the goddess
of love, became jealous and ordered her son Cupid to punish
the girl; but when Cupid saw her he fell in love with her himself.
The story of Psyche first appears in the Golden Ass of Apuleius;
it is given here in Walter Pater's graceful and elegan version.
Errol Le Cain is one of the most gifted and versatile of today's
illustrators, and these magnificent black and white pictures
reveal a new facet of his remarkable talent.
