Description
Limited edition of The Springtide of Life by Algernon Charles Swinburne, signed by illustrator Arthur Rackham.
Quarto, ix, 133pp. White vellum binding, title in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed. Illustrated endpapers. Solid text block, bumped corners, faint toning to rear cover. Vellum professionally cleaned, with small points of restoration to head of spine. Internally bright. A very good example of a deluxe binding. Complete with 9 color plates, including frontispiece, all protected by tissue guards. Limited edition of 765 copies signed by the illustrator, with 100 copies reserved for sale in America, this being number 59. Signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. (Riall, p. 133)
