first edition
1903 · Boston
by Liely, Wilhelm
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1903. First edition thus. First edition thus. Tan buckram spine with dark blue paper covered boards, white buckram corner tips, additional printed label tipped into rear endpaper. Limited to 330 numbered copies, #143. Designed by Bruce Rogers at the Riverside Press. Printed in red and black on unbleached Arnold paper and illustrated with woodcuts throughout. Title page woodcut has been illuminated in watercolors and gilt. As well, the Bruce Rogers decorated thistle device on colophon has been nicely illuminate in color. With Riverside Press catalogue (4pp) from 1913 loosely inserted. Some light fading to upper portion of front cover and browning to the spine label.
(Inventory #: 4907)