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Description: First edition thus, first impression, signed by the illustrator on the front free endpaper. This is a rare title to find signed. The Golden Age, first published in 1895, is a collection of childhood reminiscences by Kenneth Grahame, the author of The Wind in the Willows. The Parrish edition of The Golden Age was the first illustrated edition, published in 1899. It was bound in red cloth, with the title page dated 1900. This 1904 edition contains new photogravure reproductions of the Parrish illustrations, including the title page dated 1900. It was published as a companion volume to Dream Days (1902). Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front lettered in orange and black on white ground above an illustration of a castle by a river in gilt, green, and orange, within a single rule black border, light brown printed endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Photogravure frontispiece, title page, and 17 plates by Parrish, all with captioned tissue guards, tailpieces, pp. 3 advertisements at rear. Foot of spine gently bumped, extremities and head of front cover rubbed, slight wear to corners and outer edge of front cover, a little shaken with a few gatherings roughly opened. A very good copy indeed, in fresh condition.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom