SELECTED POEMS OF THOMAS HARDY. With portrait & title page design engraved on the wood by William Nicholson.
Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society, for the Riccardi Press, London. 1921, 1921.
LIMITED EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.5 x 6.7 inches). One of 1025 hand-numbered copies printed on handmade Riccardi paper. Colour tinted wood engraving illustrations to the frontis (portrait of Hardy) and title page (an owl upon a small pile of books) by William Nicholson. Fine leather binding of recent full mid brown morocco. Spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt. Compartments tooled in gilt. Red title label. Floral gilt border on boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A fine copy.
Item #10907
Price: £500.00
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