first edition
1919 · London
by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale; William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Edgar Allen Poe et al. [contributors]
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. Very Good. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1919]. First Trade Edition. Quarto. 200pp. 16 color plates with lettered tissue guards. Publisher's blue cloth decorated in gilt. No dust jacket. Light edgewear with some minor fraying to crown; spine lightly toned. Binding sound; offsetting to endpapers and foxing to edges of text block, interior else unmarked; a Very Good copy.
A series of literary and poetic vignettes accented by the Pre-Raphaelite artist's illustrations. Features Hester Prynne by Hawthorne, Helen by Poe, and Maggie Tulliver by George Eliot, among others. Date based on OCLC though a limited edition bound in vellum was published in 1916. (Inventory #: 31657)
A series of literary and poetic vignettes accented by the Pre-Raphaelite artist's illustrations. Features Hester Prynne by Hawthorne, Helen by Poe, and Maggie Tulliver by George Eliot, among others. Date based on OCLC though a limited edition bound in vellum was published in 1916. (Inventory #: 31657)
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