Buy this book on-line DAWSON, LAWRENCE H - Retold by: : STORIES FROM THE FAERIE QUEENE RETOLD FOM SPENSERLONDON.GEORGE HARRAP & COMPANY,1911. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB,1st edn thus.[Believed to have been issued in a different format earlier (1909).From the 'TOLD THROUGH THE AGES' series,this title being the 23rd of 26 so far published (at book's date of 1911.); so 1st thus.NFINE.No owner inscrptn. Bright,crisp,clean,Quarter leather and bright,crisp,2 panels above+below a central divided panel of gilt floral art-nouveau style decoration with Celtic-style entwining border and bright,crisp blocked lettering too,to front dark green cloth board/cover,rear board/coverd plain dark green and undecorated; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners.A small tear( - 2/5ths") and another small nick both at the head of bright,crisp,stamped gilt floral design+lettered 6-panelled leather spine/backstrip,all corners ubiquitously but lightly rubbed and generally sharp.Top edges gilt,fore+bottom edges aged/toned - as usual/normal and untrimmed; contents bright,tight,clean with some minimal,sporadic but unobtrusive foxing/spotting,solid and sound - a couple of tiny accidental(?) dog-ear corner creases to a couple of pages' corners,
otherwise appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,pictorial artwork by M. Lavarrs Harry,illustrated endpapers.UK,12mo HB,1st edn thus,v-xiiipp +1-234pp [paginated] includes an introduction to reader,unopened contents list/table,an illus list/table,verse extract (IGNOTO),42(XLII) chapters,16 - including frntis - full-page b/w illustrations by Gertrude Demain Hammond (R.I.) all called for and present,plus [unpaginated] slightly sporadically foxed half-title,and 6pp publisher's catalogue (undated) to the rear.
Gertrude E. Demain Hammond (1862 - 1952) b. Brixton,London,d. Worthing,1952.Sister of illustrator Chris Hammond (1861-1900). Studied at Lambeth School of Art (1879) and the Royal Academy Schools (1885). Painter,and illustrator in full colour, halftone and black and white.Although less popular,she was a better draughtsman than her sister.Elected RI (1896).
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