An alphabet / by William Nicholson.

Accession number: 
PML 146621
Author: 
Nicholson, William, 1872-1949.
Published: 
London : Published by William Heinemann, 1898, [i.e. 1897?]
Description: 
[27] leaves : col. ill. (lithograph) ; 32 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Lithographic t.p.
Popular edition, with Nicholson's hand-colored woodcuts reproduced as lithographs.
Final leaf of publisher's advertisements for works by William Nicholson.
"Popular Edition, price 5s. Library Edition, on Dutch Hand-made Paper, mounted on Brown Paper, cloth, gilt edges, price 12s. 6d. net. A few copies, printed direct from the Original Wood-Blocks, Hand-Coloured, and signed by the artist, in Portfolio, price Twenty Guineas, net"--Final leaf of advertisements.
"An Alphabet was published in October of 1897."--Cf. Ray.

Binding: 
Publisher's illustrated boards backed in linen; all edges stained red.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Signature of T. Balston, Jan. 1922, on front flyleaf.

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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