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THE STORY OF ALEXANDER
by Steele, Robert; Mason, Fred
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good plus.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: David Nutt, 1894. Very good plus.. First edition thus, in which the evocative Macedonian leader from antiquity receives a late Victorian update in this children's telling, beautifully illustrated by Mason with a consciously antiquarian flair. Clearly influenced by the Arts & Crafts movement, as well as William Morris's application of Pre-Raphaelite philosophy to bookmaking, Mason's illustrations bring together a lavish Victorian aesthetic with elements of Renaissance-era woodcuts. The full-page images evoke the Kelmscott Press, while the tailpieces hearken back to Elizabethan printers. A lovely production. 8.5'' x 7''. Original tan pictorial cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Edges uncut. Illustrated by Mason in black and white with six full-page images and numerous historiated initials, head-, and tailpieces. xiv, 226 pages. Previous owner bookplate to front pastedown; evidence of bookplate removal to rear pastedown; unobtrusive numerical owner stamp on a couple pages. Hinges unobtrusively repaired, else a bright, clean copy with very little wear.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20368
- Title
- THE STORY OF ALEXANDER
- Author
- Steele, Robert; Mason, Fred
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- David Nutt
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1894
- Keywords
- 19th century,Victorian,English & British,Historical Fiction,Ancient Greece and Rome,Arts & Crafts
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Type Punch Matrix
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