A Group of Noble Dames
( Charles RICKETTS, design ) HARDY, Thomas
That is to say: The First Countess of Wessex, Barbara of the House of Grebe, The Marchioness of Stonehenge, Lady Mottisfot, The Lady Icenway, Squire Petrick's Lady, Anna Lady Baxby, The Lady Penelope, The Duchess of Hamptonshire and The Honourable Laura.
REMARKABLY BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN PRIMARY BINDING [2000 COPIES WERE PRINTED]
Published: Osgood McIlvaine, [1891]
Stock code: 46822
Price: £520.00
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, one blank preliminary lightly browned; original sand fine-ribbed cloth, upper board and backstrip ruled and blocked in gilt, backstrip lettered in dark brown, primrose endpapers, a near fine copy.
Published at 6s. in an edition of 2,000 copies on 30 May 1891. One of the earliest trade books designed by Ricketts who prescribed the title, layout and binding. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Barber, p.326; Purdy, p.61.