Books and Manuscripts

London: George Allen, 1899. First and limited edition thus, one of 200 large paper copies printed on hand-made paper. 4to. Profusely illustrated in black and white by Hugh Thomson. Foreword by Austin Dobson. Bound in full scarlet morocco, elaborately gilt, with blue, tan, red, and white leather onlay of an image of Peg Woffington dancing, taken from the frontispiece ("The wind that shakes the barley"), on front board; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; original decorated cloth covers bound in at rear; enclosed in a linen slip case and chemise. A fine copy.

A lovely example from The Bennett Book Studios, a fine book bindery in New York City established in the late 1920s by bookman and binder Whitman Bennett (1884-1968).

From the library of bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003).