Author: WYSS, Johann
Title: The Swiss Family Robinson
Description: Ipswich, The Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. Introduction by Robert Cushman Murphy. Illustrations by David Gentleman. 4to. Quarter grey cloth with gilt-lettered calf spine label and coarse orange grasscloth, slipcase with paper spine label. xiii, 354pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Fine/very good. Slipcase lightly age toned and mildly scuffed. Superb and tight copy of the LEC's fourth title in their 31st series, a rollicking adventure penned by this Swiss author and first published in 1812. Just as adventuresome is the binding cloth, which the "Monthly Letter" (laid in) identifies as "grasscloth, laboriously prepared -- by the primitive natives of a Pacific isle -- from the inner bark of honeysuckle stems.These are hand-picked, hand-washed, hand-rubbed, sun-dried, and hand-woven.." not to mention handsome! Colophon at rear notes limitation of 1500 numbered copies (this #241) signed by illustrator Gentleman. Laid in is the appropriate LEC "Monthly Letter" and small printed announcement. NEWMAN 343. .

Keywords: World Literature Children's


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