(CRESSET PRESS) Painter, William. The Palace of Pleasure With an Introduction by Hamish Miles. The Cresset Press, London, 1929.

Price: US$16500.00 + shipping

Description: Copy number one of only 30 numbered copies on hand-made paper. Pochoir frontispiece in each volume, numerous headpieces all by Douglas Percy Bliss. Illustrations by Douglas Percy Bliss. With 105 original signed drawings (including 8 full-page hand colored drawings for frontispieces). 4 vols. 4to (11 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.; 292 x 190 mm). 105 Drawings. Together with all 105 original signed drawings, those for the frontispieces hand-colored, together with a separate proof for each of the frontispieces, hand-colored and signed by the artist, the majority of the headpieces mounted in groups of three. Ransom, Selective Checklists, pp. 7-8 Bound in original vellum. Later slipcases, mounted drawings housed in folding box to match Pochoir frontispiece in each volume, numerous headpieces all by Douglas Percy Bliss. Illustrations by Douglas Percy Bliss. With 105 original signed drawings (including 8 full-page hand colored drawings for frontispieces). 4 vols. 4to (11 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.; 292 x 190 mm) Copy number one of only 30 numbered copies on hand-made paper.

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