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Published by Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1910
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
265 [1] pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth with gilt-lettered leather label on spine. The edges of the spine label rubbed; clean, tight and sound.
Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. LIMITED EDITION. (1906). Slim folio. Ltd. edition 30/250 copies. Prospectus with darkening laid in. Offsetting to boards. Edgewear to boards with scraping to forecorners, boards exposed underneath paper binding at forecorners. Rubbing and discoloration to spine. Slight scraping to lower spine end. Perforation to front joint near middle of spine. Small red stain to upper rear joint. Rubbing to boards. Black markings to front board, along joint and to lower middle to bottom edge. Small blue mark to middle of front board. Toning to text block. Spotting and foxing to leaves. VG.
Published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Printed at Riverside Press, Boston, MA, 1904
Hardcover. 74/220. Oversized, bound in 1/2 vellum with black spine lettering and floral illustrated paper boards; XXXIV pages, color illustrations. This edition was printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, for Houghton, Mifflin & Company, and consists of two hundred and twenty copies, of which this is no. 74"- Colophon. Title in red and black, with hand-colored Riverside Press device containing initials "br"; text printed from batarde type, opening initial gilt, others in blue, chapter headings and page numbers in red; side notes printed in ochre from civilité type. Illustrated with headpiece vignette and 5 roundels, all hand-colored, based on stained glass windows in Chartres Cathedral. VG (binding is tight, pages are very clean and clear, small 1.5 inch tear to rear colophon page, light soiling to covers, mounted inside front cover is a small 2' x 1' bookplate for L.W. Drummond).