The Admirable Crichton

  • London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914
By Barrie, J.M. Hugh Thomson (illustrator)
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500 numbered copies (this copy being 94), signed by the artist. Original vellum over boards. Front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt within a double gilt rule and a triple green rule border. Spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Silk ties missing and vellum a bit dust soiled. Large quarto (12 1/8 x 10 inches; 309 x 253 mm.). Collating [2, limitation leaf], vi, [2], 234, [2] with twenty mounted color plates (including frontispiece), with descriptive tissue guards. Black and white text illustrations. Color plate and mount opposite page 36 with vertical marginal crease. A Near Fine copy housed in a gray cloth slipcase.

Laid in is the Leicester Galleries exhibition notice for the original drawings for this book.

Details

Title

The Admirable Crichton

Author

Barrie, J.M. Hugh Thomson (illustrator)

Condition

Unknown

Publisher

Hodder & Stoughton: London

Date

1914


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