Product Description
First edition of F.
J.
Harvey's lovely collection of Medieval romances, illustrated by Arthur George Walker.
First edition.
In publisher's original decorative cloth binding.
Illustrated with forty monochrome plates, including the frontispiece.
By Arthur George Walker, well-known sculptor, most often associated with the famous Florence Nightingale statue at Waterloo Place.
Lovely collection of Medieval romances, rewritten by writer and publisher Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton, best known for his pioneering research in The Story of English Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social Life (1932).
This work includes tales of William and the Werewolf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Seven Wise Masters, among others.
In publisher's original decorative cloth binding.
Contemporary inscription to rear of front free endpaper, dated 1907.
Externally, very smart with slight bumping and rubbing and a few marks to rear board.
Encased in protective binding.
Internally, firmly bound.
Generally bright and clean with spotting heavier to the first and last few pages.
Very Good
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