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The race of leaves.

FIELD, Michael

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(London, the Ballantyne Press, sold by Hacon & Ricketts, [27 June] 1901)

8vo.

Publisher's binding: half grey paper, decorated (dead leaves in buff and green) paper boards designed by Ch. Ricketts, flat spine with lettered label (spine soiled). Top edge trimmed.

Opening with a nice ornamented border in black figuring on top Janus, on left the medal of Comodus, and the Amazon and her moon-shaped shield, and below the Nemean lion's skin and Herakles' mace. Decorated also with a black initial and sm. ornament on first page of text, and with half-borders at the start of each Act. Illustrations by Ch. Ricketts. Printed in Vale type in red & black. Edition limited to 290 unnumbered copies (incl. 10 on vellum), one of the 280 on Arnold's hand-made paper.
Ref. Watry B31. - Ransom, Vale Press, 31. - Tomkinson, Vale Press, 31. - A collection of books designed by Charles Ricketts. Zurich, L'Art ancien, bulletin 25, 1972, pp. 2-43, n. 51.
Prov. Rainforth Armitage Walker (1886-1967), Art collector, friend & biographer of Aubrey Beardsley (bookpl.).

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