Sappho Edmonds Drawings Vera Willoughby (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Tan beveled buckram gilt, small 4to., xi, 85 + 81 pages, illustrated with two tinted plates of drawings by Vera Willoughby. One of 350 numbered copies printed by Joh. Enschede en Zonen from J. van Krimpen's Antigone Greek and Lutetia type on Dutch handmade paper. This is the first book set in Antigone Greek type. Attractive engraved bookplate of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt on front pastedown, along with a smaller tipped-in plate noting the its presentation by her to the Hunt Library at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, stamped withdrawn. The only other mark is a miniscule stamp to the rear pastedown. Spine not unpleasantly darkened, else a clean, unworn near fine copy in archival mylar.