SOME BRITISH BALLADS: Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Published by Constable & Co. in London nd. [1919]
SKU: 58993
£45.00
FIRST TRADE EDITION 4to. blue cloth hardback, decorative gilt to spine and upper board and blind-stamped decoration to lower board. Decorative endpapers. 8pp., [2], 170pp., illustrated with 16 tissue-guarded, tipped-in plates and many b/w vignettes within the text. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Tissue-guards missing to two plates and a couple with creases or corners missing, all with light browning to edges and offsetting to facing page of text. One leaf detached but present. Some light foxing, occasionally heavier. Some wear to top and base of spine with a few small splits to cloth. Tanning to all edges (please see photos). A Good, Sound Copy.

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