Author: SCOTT, Walter
Title: Ivanhoe: A Romance
Description: New York, The Limited Editions Club, 1940. Hardcover. Designs and illustrations by Allen Lewis. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Silver cloth embossed with chain mail pattern and orange spine lettering, slipcase . xxx, 612pp. Frontispieces, numerous 2-page illustrations, small decorations, pictorial endpapers. Fine/very good. Slipcase faintly edgeworn, with two seams neatly, discreetly.and archivally strengthened. Bright and handsome set of the second title in the LEC's twelfth series (a title they published again in 1951). Colophon at rear of second volume notes limitation of 1500 numbered copies (this #1132) signed large and bold by illustrator Lewis, whose dramatic linoleum-block plates are powerful and evocative. NEWMAN 120. .

Keywords: British Literature


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