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; fairly heavy toning to free endpapers with sparse foxing to interior (moreso to preliminaries and terminals) and to edges of textblock, else interior 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 (truncated)
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 (truncated)