first edition Hardcover
1923 · NY
by Hobson, R(obert) L(ockhart)
NY: Charles Schribner's Sons, 1923. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 59 plates printed on one side with printed captions on the facing side of the tissue guards (9 in color intermixed with the text and the other 50 after the index in black and white), index, xvi, 240p. Original brown cloth. 28cm. Endpapers split or splitting along hinge. Some cover scuffing and wear. Glue marking on front pastedown where a bookplate used to be. No jacket. Copy No. 1149 of the edition limited to 1500 numbered copies on rag paper and bound in "art canvas. There was also smaller limited editions with an extra plate and bound in Japanese vellum (27 copies) or pigskin (256 copies) with an extra color plate. (Inventory #: 93169)