THE WAY OF THE WORLD and LOVE FOR LOVE. Two Comedies. With Illustrations and Decorations by John Kettelwell.
John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. London. 1929, 1929.
FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 8vo. (9.6 x 6.5 inches). Frontispiece and 11 full-page illustrations, plus numerous smaller decorations among the text, by John Kettelwell. Pictorial endpapers. In the publishers black cloth binding with a gilt cupid and arrow to the front board and gilt lettering to the front board and spine. The fore-edges are uncut. In the original black dustwrapper printed in pale blue with the cupid and arrow design to the front, a portrait of a lady in a powdered wig to the foot of the spine, and the price of 21/- net to the spine. The wrapper is in a protective film cover. Light spotting to the fore-edges, and some offsetting to the endpapers where the wrapper ends. Overall a very good copy in a very good wrapper. ---- Printed by Richard Clay & Sons, Bungay, Suffolk. Congreve's Love for Love was first staged in 1695 and The Way of the World in 1700.
Item #11877
Price: £100.00