Everyman. A Morality Play.

AMSCHEWITZ, John H. (illus.)

Published by London: printed by the Riccardi Press and published for the Medici Society by Philip Lee Warner, 1911

About this Item

First Amschewitz edition, number 225 of 500 copies printed on paper at the Riccardi Press; there were also 15 copies printed on vellum. A crisp copy of this beautiful publication, issued by Philip Lee Warner's Riccardi Press, which was noted for fine editions of Chaucer, Malory, Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Browning. This edition of the 15th-century morality play, fully entitled in the colophon as The Treatise of the Summoning of Everyman, uses the edition by Frank Sidgwick originally published in 1902. A review of this edition in The Athenaeum commenced "To the new volume of the Riccardi Press, Everyman. nothing but praise is due as regards matter and form. The qualities shown in these illustrations bear witness to the training [the artist] has received: a welcome freedom of composition and movement, a power of massing figures, and a sense of the picturesque". This was the artist's first illustrated book. John Henry Amschewitz (1882-1942) was a portrait painter, muralist, illustrator and cartoonist. He produced murals for the Liverpool Town Hall and also the Royal Exchange. In 1939 he settled in South Africa. The Athenaeum, 9 December 1911, p. 741. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 9 coloured plates, with captioned leaves, all by John H. Amschewitz. Original full limp vellum, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, green cotton ties. Slight natural colour variance to vellum, as usual; a near-fine and bright copy. Seller Inventory # 161801

Bibliographic Details

Title: Everyman. A Morality Play.

Publisher: London: printed by the Riccardi Press and published for the Medici Society by Philip Lee Warner, 1911

Edition: 1st Edition