Hardcover
1914 · London
by Robinson, F. Cayley (Illustrator)
London: Philip Lee Warner, 1914. Limited edition. Hardcover. g. 1/500. Quarto. XV, [1], 88, [4]pp. Uncut. Original grey cloth over paper covered boards. Title labels laid on spine and front cover. Ribbon marker. Color frontispiece protected with a captioned tissue-guard. Illustrated title page. Remarkable edition of the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. One of 500 copies impeccably printed by Charles Jacobi at the Chiswick Press on Riccardi handmade paper, in the Venetian-inspired Riccardi type. This edition is exquisitely illustrated with 10 color plates, each protected with a captioned tissue guard. Moderate age toning along edges of binding. Previous owner's ex-libris on inside of front cover. Offsetting on endpapers. Binding in overall good, interior in very good condition.
(Inventory #: 31803)