GOLDEN LEGEND
[1910]
US issue of the first Meteyard-illustrated edition, with gorgeous illustrations from the Birmingham School Artist.
About fine.
Price: $225.00
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US issue of the first Meteyard-illustrated edition, with gorgeous illustrations from the Birmingham School Artist.
About fine.
Price: $225.00
Meteyard is best known for his stained glass, but across the board his work shows the influence of William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, and others who extended the Pre-Raphaelite approach beyond painting. The US issue is distinguished from the UK by the imprint and by the variant binding; the London edition depicts a castle rather than the heroine Elsie, as here.
New York: Hodder & Stoughton / George H. Doran Company, [1910]. Quarto. 9.75'' x 7.25''. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and blind with central image of Elsie framed by foliage. Illustrated by Meteyard with 25 tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards and elaborately ornamented title page printed in gilt. viii, 153, [1] pages. Barely visible spotting to cloth, faint offsetting to endpapers, else fresh, bright, and clean.
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