FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION FOLIO ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH GILT DESIGN TO FRONT COVER. WITH 25 POETIC AND DRAMATIC SCENES DESIGNED AND ETCHED BY DAVID SCOTT MEMBER OF THE SCOTTISH ACADEMY OF PAINTING. LABEL OF PURDIE BONNAR AND CARFRAE (EMINENT SCOTTISH DECORATORS) OF EDINBURGH TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. FOXING TO THE PLATES AND FRONT HINGE SPLIT OTHERWISE VERY GOOD. VERY SCARCE.
12 mo. FULL LEATHER. 168 PAGES LIFE OF THOMSON ENGRAVED FRONTIS. AND TITLE PAGE. FULL TREE CALF GILT DECORATION TO SPINE. VERY GOOD AND TIGHTLY BOUND. BOOKPLATE OF ALFRED COUGHTREY TO FRONT PASTEDOWN.
FIRST EDITION LARGE PAPER COPY 32 ENGRAVED PLATES PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER. T.E.G. QUARTER MOROCCO RAISED BANDS TIGHT AND CLEAN. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTEDOWN. SCARCE.
FOLIO LIMITED TO 300 NUMBERED COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 115. FULLY BOUND IN NIGER LEATHER BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE PUBLISHED BY THE SWALLOW PRESS DESIGNED BY EDWARD BURRETT WITH DRAWINGS BY CLARKE HUTTON WITH A PREFACE BY ROBERT GRAVES. SIGNED BY ROBERT GRAVES EDWARD BURRETT AND CLARKE HUTTON. A FINE EXAMPLE OF A SCARCE BOOK. COMPLETE WITH ORIGINAL SLIPCASE (WORN).
FINE COPY CONTAINED IN A FINE SLIPCASE. EIGHT ETCHINGS BY DENIS TEGETMEIER.THIS EDITION CONSISTS OF 200 COPIES DIVIDED AS FOLLOWS; 188 COPIES NUMBERED 1 TO 188 CONSISTING OF THE TEXT AND THE PLATES; AND 12 COPIES NUMBERED 1 TO X11 AND SIGNED BY THE ARTIST CONTAINING A SET OF THE ETCHINGS PROOFED IN 1929. THIS IS NUMBER 37 OF 188. SERRATED PAGE EDGES.
FINELY BOUND IN FULL LEATHER WITH EXTENSIVE GILT DECORATION TO THE FRONT AND REAR BOARDS AND TO THE SPINE. MARBLED END PAPERS. AMORIAL BOOKPLATE OF CONON WILLIAMS ON FRONT PASTEDOWN. 122 PAGES INCLUDING THE NOTES. SOME FOXING TO THE EARLY AND LATE PAGES BUT A VERY GOOD CLEAN COPY. THE POEM FOUNDED ON A SPANISH TRADITION CONCERNS DON RODERICK THE LAST GOTHIC KING OF SPAIN.
FOUR VOLUMES. PORTRAIT FRONTISPIECE VOLUME 1 . TITLES SLIGHTLY BROWNED. BOOK PLATES ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER FINE CALF REBACKED WITH ORIGINAL SPINES LAID DOWN GILT WITH MOROCCO SPINE LABELS. OCTAVO.
FOUR VOLUMES 8vo. HALF LEATHER AND MARBLED BOARDS. LEATHER IS SOUND BUT WORN. BLACK TITLE BLOCK WITH GILT EMBOSS. END PAPERS AND TITLE PAGES ARE FADED TO DARK WTIH AGE. OTHERWISE VERY CLEAN. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE CRITICISM ON HIS WRITINGS ETC.
