One of 140 copies. Four full-page decorations by Lewis Allen printed in gray with single coloured borders (orange, blue, green purple), these highlight colours reflected in the typographical ornaments flanking the facing chapter titles, decorated title page printed in orange. Folio, 126pp. Original publisher’s binding of full red and beige patterned cloth printed by hand at the firm of Fortuny in Venice, spine lettered in matching red, original glassine jacket. Set in Romanee type by Jan van Krimpen and printed on handmade St. Cuthberts Mill paper. Kentfield, The Allen Press, 1975.
Fine.
Four stories by Edith Wharton, including Roman Fever, The Other Two, The Last Asset and Afterward, finely printed and illustrated by the Allen Press.
