Book Description

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8 x 5.5 inches). Fully illustrated with 20 full page and 38 smaller mono line drawings by Anning Bell. Title page and frontis with red ruled line borders. Foxing to several pages, but mostly just to the blank margins and page edges, otherwise a very good copy in an early binding of full vellum. Spine with gilt floral decoration that has two red morocco leather onlays. Brown morocco label, ruled and lettered in gilt. Front board with floral gilt design, six red morocco floral onlays and a green morocco title label, gilt. Both boards with gilt ruled border. Board edges with gilt double sized dot roll design. Turn ins with triple gilt ruled lines and floral corner pieces. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Neat previous owner inscription, dated 1905, on front blank free endpaper. The binding is a little darkened on the spine but still an attractive and highly accomplished vellum binding, which is unsigned. Issued as a volume in Bell's Endymion series, this work contains the writings of scores of English writers, including Donne, Milton, Webster, Shakespeare, Herrick, Marlowe and Jonson.
Author BELL. ROBERT ANNING. Illustrates.
Date 1898
Publisher George Bell & Sons. London.

Price: £850.00

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