Books and Manuscripts

London: William Heinemann/New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1908. First and limited edition, #54/1,000 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. 4to. (viii), 134 pp., (1) p. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 40 color plates, all mounted and all with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's deluxe full vellum, decorated in gilt, boards variously scratched, soiled, and discolored; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; silk ties wanting; prelims toned; offsetting to tissue guards and pages opposite heavy brown paper; Latimore & Haskell, p. 32; Riall, p. 87