first edition, mezzotint frontispiece by G.Allen after the author, fine decorative woodcut title by the author, light spotting to fore-edge, textblock broken, original cloth-backed pictorial boards repeating design from the title on upper cover, uncut, rubbed and soiled, corners worn, 4to, Orpington, 1883. *** Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851-1942) was an architect and designer who founded the Century Guild in 1882 and also its associated magazine The Century Guild Hobby Horse in 1884 (see following lot). The title-page of this work with its design of sinuous foliage is recognised as the first printed expression of the Art Nouveau in England.
first edition, mezzotint frontispiece by G.Allen after the author, fine decorative woodcut title by the author, light spotting to fore-edge, textblock broken, original cloth-backed pictorial boards repeating design from the title on upper cover, uncut, rubbed and soiled, corners worn, 4to, Orpington, 1883. *** Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851-1942) was an architect and designer who founded the Century Guild in 1882 and also its associated magazine The Century Guild Hobby Horse in 1884 (see following lot). The title-page of this work with its design of sinuous foliage is recognised as the first printed expression of the Art Nouveau in England.
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