Shelfmark
Kx.4.23
Additional shelfmark
[Another copy: Kx.4.24]
Author
Title
Selected poems of Thomas Hardy / with portrait & title page design engraved on the wood by William Nicholson.
Edition
Medici Society ed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London ; Liverpool ; Boston : Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society Ltd., 1921.
Physical description
144 p. : engraving, vignette ; 23 cm.
Series statement
(Ricardi Press)
Note
See Purdy, p. 187.
Note
Original white quarter cloth over blue paper covered boards ; title labels pasted to spine and front board.
Note
"Of this edition of the Selected poems of Thomas Hardy have been printed in the Riccardi fount on hand-made Riccardi Paper 1025 copies, of which 1000 only are for sale, and upon vellum 14 copies, of which 12 are for sale" - from limitation page.
Provenance
With a newspaper cutting, an extraneous leaf featuring the 1921 drawing of Hardy by William Nicholson, and a leaf from the auction catalogue loosely inserted.
Copy-specific note
Auction catalogue leaf identifies this copy as "No. 291 of 1025 copies", however the copy is not numbered and it is unclear how this was ascertained.
Added entry--name
Nicholson, William, 1872 - 1949 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Philip Lee Warner publisher.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B35705