Limited Edition. The whole edition ran to 400 copies, of which this is one of one hundred on Whatman paper, with the illustrations in two states. Finely printed by Chamerot & Renouard of Paris, and a very fine but restrained contemporary binding.
lge. 8vo, original thin card front cover title in red and black with cherub & stag beetle vignette, 1 f. limitation, 1 f. title printed in red & black with vignette, pp. 67 (1), 1 f. printer’s colphon, 1 f. (original thin card back cover) printer’s device, frontispiece and text vignettes, repeated (ensuite) with extra set of the illustrations in a second state on 17 leaves, fine full rose-pink crushed morocco gilt by Otto Schulze of Edinburgh (gilt stamped), with striking silk patterned end-papers, gilt tooled turn-ins, t.e.g., rest untrimmed.
£175
