SATYRS AND SUNLIGHT. Being the Collected Poetry of Hugh McCrae.
by McCRAE, Hugh. Illustrated and decorated by: LINDSAY, Norman. With Introduction by EARP, Thomas
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About This Item
London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1928. . Limited edition, no.11 of 550 copies, 4to., pp.xix,176, full green morocco, gilt, with small pictorial gilt image to front board, handmade paper by Barcham Green, deckle edges, b/w frontispiece, pictorial title, pictorial half title, pictorial colophon, b/w collotype and gravure plates; (sympathetic) pictorial ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper, spine and margins of boards browned (gilt remains bright), light rubbing to the leather, such that the surface colour has been lifted, light toning to fore-edges of leaves, a fresh and otherwise fine copy.
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- Bookseller
- MINSTER GATE BOOKSHOP
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31979
- Title
- SATYRS AND SUNLIGHT. Being the Collected Poetry of Hugh McCrae.
- Author
- McCRAE, Hugh. Illustrated and decorated by: LINDSAY, Norman. With Introduction by EARP, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1928.
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