Closed splits to bottom and top 2" of rear joint
The front endpapers and all but two of the chapter headings have been carefully hand colored
more ambitious and successful than 'When Hearts Are Trumps'
Small inlaid green dots accent the design
Title page in black lettering with red grapevine frame
[Bruce Rogers | Fine Binding] Men of Letters of the British Isles E-List 36 Closed splits to bottom andSpicer 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