BLACKMORE, RICHARD DODDRIDGE and WILL H. BRADLEY, illustrator
Fringilla; or, Tales in Verse. Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1895. First edition thus, one of 40 special copies on Japon (and 600 on regular paper), this copy 10, thus numbered on the colophon, and with three extra portraits laid-in (each numbered "10" in red ink from the edition). Original publisher’s buckram–backed pictorial boards stamped in red and black. 8 3/4 x 6 inches (22.5 x 15 cm); 130, [2] pp., illustrated throughout by Will Bradley. The spine toned and a trifle chipped, the boards soiled, corners worn; generally a clean copy internally.
One of the defining illustrated books of the American 1890s Arts and Crafts movement, and the very epitome of Bradley's graphic style. Very rare in this form, and we have never seen a copy of the Japan vellum issue (which is, in any case, exceptionally uncommon) with the three portraits that are present in this copy.
Condition
Foot of spine a bit frayed, corners rubbed.
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