signed Hardcover
1930 · London
by Leighton, Clare; Hilaire Belloc (Introduction)
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. Large quarto [32 cm] Original brown cloth with woodcut illustration mounted on the front board. The binding is in lovely clean and bright condition. Illustrated with a total of 41 mono tipped in woodcuts, printed on fine paper and mounted onto blank pages with printed tissue guards. Some foxing, primarily to the endpapers and preliminary leaves, but a few spots on some of the blank mount pages, none of this affecting the woodcuts. In the publisher's printed dustwrapper, with a few small nicks and a little rubbing. The wrapper is toned, but is in very good condition. Overall, a better (truncated)