[Book; Inscribed by Author, Edith Sitwell, and by bookseller, Bertram Rota] In Spring

Author: 
Edith Sitwell
Publication details: 
'Privately Printed in London Anno Domini MCMXXXI'
£120.00
SKU: 15041

Wood Engravings by Edward Carrick.8vo, [11]pp., printed privately for Terence Fytton Armstrong [John Gawsworth, ]Number 7 of 290 (305) copies printed on Charles I hand-made paper, engraved title-page and two other decorations, mottled pale green paper-covered boards, sl. speckled, with original glassine-type thin paper wraps, sl. chipped and speckled, yellow printed label with an additional engraving on the front, endpapers sl. browned, a little faded, generally good to very good. Inscribed under the limitation statement by Author, Edith Sitwell, and by bookseller, Bertram Rota, eminent & pioneering modern first specialist. A small pseudo-bookplate (by Armstrong?) appears on the recto of the front free endpaper (a representation of a capital A supporting a bookrest surrounded by the following, "For | B R | MCMXXXII" (Fifoot EA21 b.)