[SPECIAL PRESS] I FIORETTI DI S. FRANCESCO DI ASSISI

Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1922. Near Fine binding. Octavo; in limp vellum; viii, 239 pages; one of 240 copies; with 53 wood engravings after drawings by Charles Gere and cut by J. B. Swain; and with initial letters desgned by Graily Hewitt; with green silk ties; and titling in gilt lettered vertically to the spine; with the printer’s device in red at the colophon; with red shoulder notes and Hewitt’s initials pritned in blue or red.~~On the endpaper is a gift inscription: “Mary Reynolds from Dorothy Jacob with much love” and also what appears to be a penciled signature of C. H. St. John Hornby, Esq., dated 22/5/23. (Hornby, Descriptive Bibliography, XXXI,, p.76; Franklin 240). Near Fine binding.