(FELL, Herbert Granville, illus.)
The Book of Job.
Binding a little tilted and the slightest of bumping to the extremities of the binding, but a fine copy, bright and unworn.
A remarkably elaborate series of drawings and borders, the effect of which is slightly let down by pedestrian typography, including the use of a clumsy black-letter type. Granville Fell’s reputation has decayed, rather unfairly - the first quotation we learn about him is Yeats’s dislike of his binding design for Poems of 1895, and John Russell Taylor snubs him entirely in his The Art Nouveau Book in Britain - in fact the illustrations for this book are eloquent and of a whole.
