First edition printed in 200 copies, ours one of the 30 on Holland paper, deluxe copies.
Spine slightly browned with small lacks and tears at head and foot, slight lacks and tears to board margins, handsome interior condition despite clear foxing on the final endpaper.
Rare.
First edition printed in 150 numbered copies on vellum.
Publisher's full red cloth binding, smooth spine with rubbing, lower headcap rubbed, boards marginally soiled, lower corners slightly bumped, top edge gilt.
Handsome interior condition despite a clear dampstain at head of the final leaves.
Introduction by Mrs Meynell.
Complete with its 62 plates outside the text under tissue guards reproducing works by John Singer Sargent.
Illustrated edition with 38 original engravings by Ling Chou, copper-engraved and hand-printed in sanguine, printed in 134 nominative and numbered copies on double Yu-Pan China paper.
The book, separated into two fascicles hand-sewn and covered in green moiré silk, is protected by two black lacquer plates and laces, work of the master lacquerer Tchou-Tze-Tsin.
The whole is contained in a moiré silk case closed by two ivory clasps, following the illustrator's design.
The case is partially and lightly discolored, with a light stain at the head of the first board of the case, handsome copy.
Signatures of Ling Chou, of the president and vice-president of the Society of Women Bibliophiles which published the work.
