Green Arras by Laurence Housman - 2012-08-01

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London & Chicago: John Lane / Way And Williams, 1896. First. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo, gilt dec. green cloth, tips of spine worn Illustrated by Housman with 6 drawings, Morris-esque title-page and cover design to accompany his poems [Kraus 33].

John Lane at the Bodley Head , 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Good. Minor edgewear/scuffing to covers, gift inscription dated 1897 on front pastedown, book plate from Hove Public Library dated 1920 on rear pastedown with tearing to paper above (as though an envelope may have been attached), yellowing to pages, also a few small vintage Hove Library stamps to interior, opens freely in places but binding good.

London; Chicago: John Lane at The Bodley Head; Way and Williams, 1896 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Laurence Housman. A bright first edition of this poetry anthology by Laurence Housman, illustrated by the author himself. Illustrated by Housman with a woodcut frontispiece and title page and five plates. Collated, complete.In the very smart original cloth binding, which has a repeated ethereal gilt motif across the spine and front board.Housman, a prominent Victorian era playwright, writer, and illustrator, also designed the binding for this work; he worked for the publisher, designing many of their book covers. He is remembered as admitting in that binding that he 'did what I thought an extra-good one for myself. It was, in all events, very rich and elaborate'. With a sixteen page publisher's catalogue to the rear.With a former owner's hand drawn inscription, featuring the initials FMJ, to the front free endpaper, and the inscription 'Sept 19 1934' to the rear pastedown. In the… Read More

Way and Williams/John Lane Bodley Head: Chicago and London, 1896. First Edition. Octavo. viii, 90pp. 16pp. publisher's ads. Houseman's pre-Raphaelite style was printed by R. Folkard and Son, London, on wove paper, untrimmed. Bound in green cloth decoratively stamped in gilt, spine gilt, title page and frontispiece beautifully decorated, large chapter initials, illustrated with five full page illustrations, light scattered foxing to first handfull of leaves incluing title and frontispiece and along fore-edges. A very nice copy clean and bright. [#31 in The Publishing Activities of Way & Williams, Chicago, 1895-98; Way & Williams #33; Joe W. Kraus in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Second Quarter, 1976, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Second Quarter, 1976), pp. 221-260.].

London:John Lane. Chicago: Way and Williams.,1896. FIRST EDITION, IST ISSUE. 16pp catalogue at rear.Ornately decorated frontispiece and titlepage. Six illustrations by the author. Illuminated initial letters. Decorated endpapers, edges uncut. Publisher's decorated green cloth, gilt lettering and designs on upper board, Some spotting to first and last few leaves Edges a little dusty. Very good +.:

London: John Lane at the Bodley Head. Chicago: Way and Williams, 1896. First edition. Double-page illustrated title page by the author, with 5 other illustrations by him. viii, 90, [16, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green gilt decorated cloth by the author. Fine. First edition. Double-page illustrated title page by the author, with 5 other illustrations by him. viii, 90, [16, ads] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Turn of a Century no. 24; Kraus, Way and Williams, no. 33

London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. viii, 90, (2), 16p. ads. With the errata slip laid-in. With 7 plates by Laurence Housman. Bound in the opriginal green cloth with art nouveau gilt design by Housman stamped to the front board and spine. Yellow endpapers with floral decorations. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped and rubbed, the spine gilt a little dull, but otherwise an excellent copy, clean throughout and the binding tight. A really beautiful 1890's cloth binding.