CRANE, Walter (author and illustrator). Renascence, A Book of Verse. London: Elkin Mathews At The Sign Of The Bodley Head. 1891.
8vo.; publisher's cream parchment-backed blue paper-covered boards with printed paper label to spine, in red, top edges rough, others untrimmed; pp. [ii], xiii, [1]-162 + [i] + [4], publisher's adverts., printed on fine hand-made paper at The Chiswick Press, with tipped-in erratum slip to p. 32; with pictorial wood-engraved title-page and a total of 36 striking engravings by Crane including pictorial headpieces, tailpieces, and vignettes; a very good, sound, copy, with the usual dust-soiling and light scratching to spine and small wear to lower forecorner tips slightly exposing board; internally fine throughout, with a neat and small ink inscription, in a calligraphic hand, dated 1891, to front free endpaper.
First edition de luxe; one of a limited edition of only 350 copies for the English market. 150 additional copies were printed for American consumers.
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