Pp. cxxxviii(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece with tissue guard, plus elaborate decorative border to first text page both works, several decorative initials; qr. cream paper with printed paper title label on spine, buff papered boards patterned with a 'nut and mouse' motif in green, fore-corners lightly worn, slightly soiled; uncut;... More
In three volumes, totalling over 550 pages, including 4 pages with an elaborate decorative border, a few decorative initials and several tiny ornaments in text; cream buckram, spines lettered in gilt, the boards slightly soiled, a couple of corners faintly bruised, spines a trifle discoloured; uncut and partly unopened; outer... More
Pp. [ii]+cxviii(last colophon, verso blank), elaborate 'honeysuckle' decorative border to first text page, numerous decorative initials; qr. light blue/grey paper with printed paper title label on spine, buff papered boards patterned with a rose and leaf design in green, both papers a trifle soiled; uncut; free endpapers offset;Hacon & Ricketts... More
Charles Ricketts, a publisher in earnest. Pp. xxiv+266, 8 coloured plates, black & white frontispiece portrait and numerous text illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index; demy 4to; dust wrapper; Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, New Castle & London, 2004. First edition. *'As a typographer, publisher, and wood engraver Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) was... More