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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of 240 (250) copies printed in Vale type in red and black on specially watermarked hand-made paper. Woodcut decorations by Charles Ricketts. Printed paper-covered boards, green peacocks on a drab ground, stone back with printed spine label. Some browning to endpapers, some wear to extremities. A very good copy.…

First separate edition: the play was originally published in 1884 with another play, Callirrhoë. Octavo. pp lxxx. Printed in black and red. Wood-engraved rose border (used twice) and two large ornamental initials all by Charles Ricketts. The only book in which this border design was used. Boards with two different patterned papers; spine label. A play. 210 copies were printed, of which 23 were destroyed in a fire in 1899.Endpapers tanned. Covers rubbed at spine and edges. Spine label darkened. Very good.…

First edition. Octavo. pp lxxxv. Prelims printed in black and red. The first page of text has a decorative border by Charles Ricketts. Quarter green paper boards with a decorative leaf design by Ricketts. A play set in ancient Rome.Mottling to spine (possibly from binder's glue?). Spine label rubbed, affecting several letters of the title. Free endpapers lightly tanned. Very good.…

FIRST EDITION limited to 280 copies on 'VP Leaf' handmade paper; pp.lxxxv + colophon; elaborate decorative border with illustrations & initial, 3 half-borders, text in red & black Vale type; a very good uncut copy in 1984 designer binding of full green morocco with eight inlaid morocco leaves in various colours, paste-paper endpapers with leaf decoration, by Gale Herrick, founder member & first President of the Hand bookbinders of California in 1972; preserved in batik-paper green card clam-shell box by Donald Brown. Watry B31.…

London, Hacon & Ricketts; New York, John Lane 1901. 23,7 : 15,2 cm. 6 w.Bl., LXXXV, (3) S., 6 w.Bl. Mit grossem figürlichen Holzschnitt-Titelrahmen, 3 Halbrahmen u. 1 Initiale von Charles Rickett. Orig.-Pappband mit RSchild u. grün bedrucktem Papierbezug (Laub) von Ricketts. Exlibris. Eines von 280 Exemplaren auf handgeschöpftem Arnold's Bütten. In Vale type in Rot und Schwarz gedruckt. - Vorsätze und erstes u. letztes weisses Blatt etwas gebräunt, wenige S. im Unterrand minimal stockfl. Oberkante des Vorderdeckels u. Kapitale gering berieben. Ansonsten ein sehr schönes unaufgeschnittenes Exemplar. - Tomkinson, S. 170. - Rickett, Bibliography, S. XXVIII. - Steele, S. 31. - L'Art Ancien, Bulletin 25, Nr. 51. Sprache: en.…