[Bruce Rogers | Fine Binding] Men of Letters of the British Isles E-List 36 Illustrated with an an original

Illustrated with an an original watercolor by William Glackens as the frontispiece

Title page in black lettering with red grapevine frame

The front endpapers and all but two of the chapter headings have been carefully hand colored

Closed splits to bottom and top 2" of rear joint

[Bruce Rogers | Fine Binding] Men of Letters of the British Isles E-List 36 Illustrated with an an originalSpicer Simson, Theodore & Sherman, Stuart P. Men of Letters of the British Isles. William Edwin Rudge, 1924. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Limited to 520 copies, of which this is #450. Printed on handmade Rivers paper. A presentation copy to "Mrs. Hobart, a lover of books" from W. E. Rudge. Illustrated with 29 tissue covered sepia toned reproductions of original medallions; authors include Joyce, Yeats, Conrad, Hardy, Housman, et al. Bound in deep