Search Results: Titles starting with A from Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

London: William Heinemann, 1912. No. 1,035 of 1,450 Copies SIGNED by Rackham. 280 x 222 mm. (11 x 8 3/4"). xxix, [1], 223, [1] pp.A New Translation by V. S. Vernon Jones. Introduction by G. K. Chesterton. VERY ATTRACTIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY BAYTUN-RIVIERE (stamp-signed on rear turn-in), covers bordered by gilt fillet, front cover with gilt ornament replicating the title page vignette, raised bands, spine compartments with gilt fillet frame, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins, marbled endpapers all edges gilt. With 20 full-page black and white illustrations, numerous illustrations in the text, and 13 COLOR PLATES, as called for, each mounted on heavy brown stock and protected by lettered tissue guard. Printed on Large Paper. Hudson, p. 169; Latimore and Haskell, pp. 38-39. ◆Front cover with one-inch irregularity in leather (scarcely noticeable and apparently part of the original skin), faint browning or very light foxing to pages adjacent to (acidic) stock used for plate mounts, a few… Read More