The Lyrics of François Villon. Done into English verse by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Ernest Henley, John Payne and Léonie Adams. With an introduction by Léonie Adams. The wood-blocks cut by Howard Simon. Croton Falls, New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1933.
One of 1,500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. This being copy no. 83.
Quarto. [vii], [1]-103, [1, signed limitation page], [4, blank] pp. Publisher's full tan buckram over beveled boards, brown leather label to spine lettered in gilt, top edges gilt, side and bottom edged uncut, offsetting opposite woodcut illustrations. A fine copy, with original slipcase. Slipcase rubbed and lightly soiled, with tear to one corner, but still about very good.
Newman & Wiche, 43.
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3335
$
75