[Bruce Rogers | Fine Binding] Men of Letters of the British Isles E-List 36 plain endleaves

plain endleaves

The front endpapers and all but two of the chapter headings have been carefully hand colored

Closed splits to bottom and top 2" of rear joint

mentioning three works by Rossetti

London: Bertram Dobell

[Bruce Rogers | Fine Binding] Men of Letters of the British Isles E-List 36 plain endleavesSpicer Simson, Theodore & Sherman, Stuart P. Men of Letters of the British Isles. William Edwin Rudge, 1924. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Limited to 520 copies, of which this is #450. Printed on handmade Rivers paper. A presentation copy to "Mrs. Hobart, a lover of books" from W. E. Rudge. Illustrated with 29 tissue covered sepia toned reproductions of original medallions; authors include Joyce, Yeats, Conrad, Hardy, Housman, et al. Bound in deep