Letters of Maria Edgeworth and Anna Letitia Barbauld [special edition]. This item is unavailable.Letters of Maria Edgeworth and Anna Letitia Barbauld [special edition]

25x16cm, 87pp. With illustrations by Lettice Sandford printed in black and hand-coloured. Copy 15 of 60 (300), signed by Walter Sidney Scott and Sandford, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in quarter-cream sheepskin over 'cloth of gold' patterned cloth-covered boards, a.e.g., gilt title to backstrip, in a slipcase of thin cream card. The original plan was for this book to be illustrated by Joan Hassall, but after many delays Christopher Sandford turned to his wife. He was disappointed by the hand-colouring done by 'a lady working from home in Hendon' (Cave & Manson) although the work seems pleasant enough here. The letters were known as the 'Lushington Papers', lent by Susan Lushington, a friend of Lettice Sandford's. Scarce and rather luxurious in the special edition as here, with the rich 'cloth of gold' brocade and all edges gilt (as Sandford notes in Cock-a-Hoop) Very Good (Fine but for moderate toning to backstrip) in a Fair (splits along several edges, rather grubby) slipcase. Cock-a-Hoop 193. …