Abd-er-Rhaman In Paradise

[Waltham St. Lawrence]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Nash, Paul. One of 400 copies, octavo size, 37 pp., with dust jacket. A "philosophical novel" by Jules Tellier (1863-1889), wherein "an old scholar in Algeria...grapples with his inner conflicts concerning faith as he faces his mortality. The novel explores themes of religious doubt, the search for truth, and the contrasting concepts of paradise in Christianity and Islam..." (n.b., quotes from the web site of Project Gutenberg).

With four wood engravings by Paul Nash (1889-1946), considered "one of the more important and influential painters (truncated) in Britain in the 20th century...In addition to painting, Nash illustrated nearly twenty books and....[t]his work forms an important part of his artistic output..." (n.b., from Horne, p. 332).

___DESCRIPTION: Quarter bound in blue buckram with sides of marbled paper over boards, gilt lettering on the spine, wood-engraved frontis by Nash, a small Nash wood engraving on the title page, two more full-page wood engravings bound in; Caslon O.F. type on English hand-made paper, octavo size (8 78" by 5 7/8"), pagination: [i-ii] 1-34 [1, colophon]; limited edition of 400 copies (per the colophon; Chanticleer states 500), this no. 169. The jacket of orange paper with the front panel a mirror of the title page in black, title on the spine in black.

___CONDITION: Volume near fine, with clean boards, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; a minute amount of light sunning to the head and tail of the spine, else fine. The publisher's jacket a solid very good, largely clean but with light overall dustiness, the spine sunned, and a fair amount of edgewear due to the jacket having been cut a quarter-inch taller than the book.

___CITATIONS: Chanticleer, no. 60; Horne, Alan, "The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators".

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