THE POINT OF VIEW.
n.p. Hope, Waite & Long, International Press, 1905.
No. 15 of 25 copies. There was also an issue of 250 copies. Folio. 138p. Printed on special paper (likely Japanese vellum). Illustrated on nearly every page with designs and drawings by Mucha, Guillaume, Clare Angell and others in Art Nouveau style. Many of the head-pieces, initials, drawings in the margins, etc. are printed and/or hand colored in pastels, many highlighted with gilt and silver. Bound by Stikeman in full brown morocco with watered silk flyleaves, the spine in six panels with titles and roses in gilt, the upper cover with triple fillet borders and central stylized initials, surrounded with Tudor roses and trailing vines, t.e.g., doublures of green morocco, the front doublure with gilt fillet frames and a spray of Tudor roses, the rose petals inlaid in red, the lower dentelle signed "Stikeman" The covers were probably in green also, but now a mellow brown, all else about fine. Item #24385
A mildly erotic "mens'" book in a deluxe binding by an important American turn-of-the-century binder.
Price: $2,250.00