Biblia Innocentium: Being the Story of God's Chosen People Before The Coming Of Our Lord Jesus Christ Upon Earth, Written Anew For Children

Hammersmith: Kelmscott, 1892. leather_bound. Finely bound in full tan morocco, elaborate acanthus leaf pattern stamped in brown, with borders of gilt and brown rules, matching full morocco doublures with acanthus leaf devices at corners, ruled borders, morocco endleaves with ruled borders, untrimmed. Aeg. [2], viii, 249, [1] pp. 21x14.5 cm. Woodcut border to first leaf of text; woodcut initial letters throughout. One of 200 copies printed on paper. Spectacular binding by Zaehnsdorf, with their gilt name stamp on front doublure (dated 1900) and their small pictorial stamp on rear endleaf. Bookplate of M.C.D. Borden on verso of front endleaf and of George (truncated) Edward Dimock on recto of rear endleaf. The first octavo volume issued by the press. The author a sometime fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. PETERSON A9. (Inventory #: 24036)