Moore, T. Sturge. DANAE- A POEM. Hacon and Ricketts, London, 1903.
Price: US$540.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. quarter cloth over blue paper covered boards, paper label on cover. 74 pages. Printed in red & black by the Ballantyne Press on handmade paper. (BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BOOKS ISSUED BY HACON & RICKETTS, pg xxxi). Three wood block illustrations. Some very light discoloration to blue holland boards, with light discoloration to pastedowns and endpapers. Else an excellent copy. Unopened. "Danae was the last book published by Hacon and Ricketts and contains 3 illustrations by Charles Ricketts. While many of the Vale Press books contained decorative title page borders and initial letters by Ricketts, very few of them had illustrations." Extremely scarce. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BOOKS ISSUED BY HACON & RICKETTS: Danaë. A Poem by T. Sturge Moore. With three illustrations designed and cut on the wood by Charles Ricketts. Demy octavo. Two hundred and thirty copies printed in the King's fout in red and black. Price twenty shillings. Ten copies printed on vellum. The shoulder notes and colophon are printed in red and the statement made in the colophon that it is the lat book published by Hacon and Ricketts. quarter cloth over blue paper covered boards, paper label on cover
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