Specimens of English Prose Style from Malory to Macaulay
London: Kegan Paul, Tranch & Co., 1885. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Item #20710
[2], xlvi, 367, [1] pp. (8vo) 24.8x16.3 cm (9¾x6½"), three-quarter gilt-ruled brown levant morocco & cloth, spine tooled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; bound by Zaehnsdorf. A fine copy with only a trace of shelfwear.
No. 49 of 50 large paper copies, printed at the Chiswick Press.
A handsomely printed and bound work, selected and annotated with an introductory essay by George Saintsbury. Signed in ink on the limitation page, Charles Whittingham & Co., proprietors of the Chiswick Press.
The first selection is form Malory: The Death of Lancelot.
Price: $1,250.00