285 x 205mm, very dark blue pictorial buckram, spine blocked in red, lettered & ornamented in gilt, upper cover blocked with Sita design in red, pp.xii, 162 + final blank leaf, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Title-page vignette & 31 full-page line-drawings. Limited to 500 copies on English hand-made paper. Limitation slip mounted on front free endpaper. The most handsomely produced of all Peake's illustrated works. His controlled delicacy of line and occasional baroque flourishes of detail are complemented by the exceptional quality of paper used at a time when economy still prevailed. I specialise in Mervyn Peake. Enquiries welcome. Seller Inventory # 006937

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Title: Quest for Sita. Of Ravana the Dark Angel and...

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Publication Date: 1946

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: Mervyn Peake

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Without dustwrapper.

Edition: First Edition

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Bookshop located in the former home of pioneer photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.

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Cameron House Books
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