first edition
1883 · London
by Crawhall, Joseph
London: Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Press & Co, 1883. First edition. First edition. Large thick quarto. Hand-colored pictorial paper covered boards. A superb production, fully designed and illustrated by Joseph Crawhall with superb woodcuts throughout in his inimitable style, ALL HAND-COLORED. In the prospectus bound-in, "As the many hundreds of illustrations are all hand-colored, the issue is necessarily limited. With eleven separate 'books,' each with their own gray paper wrappers. A book almost never found in presentable condition, our copy is the best we have ever seen, near fine.
(Inventory #: 3090)