One of 250 numbered copies designed by Blair Hughes-Stanton. 41 wood engravings and title by also by Hughes-Stanton. Fol., n.p., original full red Hermitage calf, blind stamped on upper board with title and press device, spine blind stamped, top edge sprinkled, printed in red and black throughout. In slipcase as issued. Newtown, Gregynog Press, 1932.
Edges slightly rubbed, internally fine. Some loss to head corner of slipcase, mark to slipcase board. A sister book to The Lamentations, the ‘fine flowing lines and meticulous detail of [Stanton’s] wood-engravings display a technical mastery which has not been surpassed in the entire history of the medium’. (p.108)
