First edition, one of 800 copies. Nonesuch device in red on title page by Stephen Gooden. Small folio, 16.5 x 26.5cm, original cream coloured cloth decorated in gilt after Ricketts, t.e.g., plain black dustjacket with spine lettered in gilt. Fine, spectactularly bright copy in very good jacket, with small chip at top of spine and slight wear at corners. London, The Nonesuch Press, 1932.
A biographical essay by Charles Ricketts, writing under the pseudonym of Jean Paul Raymond, published posthumously and with a design intended to pay homage to the books of the Vale Press. Ricketts had been a friend of Oscar Wilde and designed and edited his collection of poems The Sphinx; in Dreyfus’ words ‘this was the only Nonesuch book linked in a personal way with the private press movement of those years.’ Dreyfus 81.
