Shelfmark
Kx.4.24
Additional shelfmark
[Another copy: Kx.4.23]
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, although the parchment version is not specifically mentioned.
Note
Parchment binding ; gilt lettering on spine and front board ; marbled endpapers ; with original dust jacket?
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
Bookplate of William Maxwell on front pastedown.
Provenance
Bookplate of David Leslie Robin Guthrie on front endpaper with ms. inscription by Guthrie above.
Copy-specific note
"Paper copy number: 309" - from limitation page. Unsigned.
Copy-specific note
1 of 1000 copies on paper available to buy either in boards or natural-grain parchment (see dust jacket).
Added entry--name
Nicholson, William, 1872 - 1949 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Philip Lee Warner publisher.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B35706