BINDING--RIVIERE & SON, binder]. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. Atalanta in Calydon: A Tragedy . Hammersmith: 4 May 1894. 4 o (286 x 208 mm). Printed in Troy type (with Argument and Dramatis Personae in Chaucer type) in black and red, woodcut title-page, facing page with full woodcut page-border, numerous three-quarter, full column and partial woodcut page-borders, 8-line and smaller initial capitals, printer's device. Green levant morocco, covers richly gilt covers with inlaid tan border with inlaid stylized floral pattern against a densely gilt-dotted ground, surrounding a central panel with inlaid black geometric interlaced border around a panel of all-over geometric and stylized floral design in gilt, central panel gilt-lettered within black inlaid interlacing arabesque border, spine in seven compartments, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated stylized floral gilt panel in the rest, top edge gilt, others uncut, board edtges with double gilt fillet, turn-ins gilt-ruled and -dotted, salmon doublures with an intricate all-over mosaic pattern of dark green morocco gilt onlay, green watered silk free endpapers, edges gilt, stamp-signed by the binders on front turn-in; dark green straight-grained morocco folding box with two catches. LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies of an edition of 258. Cockerell 25; Peterson A25.
BINDING--RIVIERE & SON, binder]. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. Atalanta in Calydon: A Tragedy . Hammersmith: 4 May 1894. 4 o (286 x 208 mm). Printed in Troy type (with Argument and Dramatis Personae in Chaucer type) in black and red, woodcut title-page, facing page with full woodcut page-border, numerous three-quarter, full column and partial woodcut page-borders, 8-line and smaller initial capitals, printer's device. Green levant morocco, covers richly gilt covers with inlaid tan border with inlaid stylized floral pattern against a densely gilt-dotted ground, surrounding a central panel with inlaid black geometric interlaced border around a panel of all-over geometric and stylized floral design in gilt, central panel gilt-lettered within black inlaid interlacing arabesque border, spine in seven compartments, gilt-lettered in two, a repeated stylized floral gilt panel in the rest, top edge gilt, others uncut, board edtges with double gilt fillet, turn-ins gilt-ruled and -dotted, salmon doublures with an intricate all-over mosaic pattern of dark green morocco gilt onlay, green watered silk free endpapers, edges gilt, stamp-signed by the binders on front turn-in; dark green straight-grained morocco folding box with two catches. LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies of an edition of 258. Cockerell 25; Peterson A25.
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