Three Sirens Press

Three Sirens Press

Three Sirens Press was a New York based publisher active in the 1930s. It specialized in high quality editions of classic books, mostly books illustrated by well known illustrators. Examples include:

* Oscar Wilde's "Salome" illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley (with some of the illustrations "sanitized")
* Mark Twain’s "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" illustrated By Richard Rogers
* "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" illustrated by Gustave Doré
* AristophanesLysistrata, the Grecian temptress illustrated By Jack Lindsay
* "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" illustrated By Edmund Sullivan

Three Sirens Press books were elegantly designed, well made and nicely boundFact|date=December 2007.

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