14 illustrations and decorations by David Graves. Printed in black and green and with a two page introduction printed in gold. One of 100 copies signed by the printer (this no.73). 8vo., original green boards, overprinted with a leaf pattern in gold, original glacine wrapper, printed paper label on upper cover, headcaps slightly bumped otherwise extremely good. Decorated, set and hand-printed by David Graves at his Press - "The Swanborne", Yapton, Arudel, 1926.
An extraordinary production and although slightly crude, rather handsome, particularly the gold printed green boards and the introduction printed in gold.
Extremely scarce. The only other book known by this cataloguer to have been printed at David Graves' press was Twelve Madrigals with an introduction by James Guthrie of the Pear Tree Press in 1925.Not in Ransom, Tomkinson or Ridler.
