Description

Hardcover, quarto bound in publisher’s beige linen cloth with and embossed black bugle on the both covers and black spine lettering, in original slipcase, lettered in gold on spine. 224 pages. Introduction by David Daiches. Illustrated by Paul Hogarth. First edition, first printing thus. Signed on the colophon page by artist, Paul Hogarth, this being no. 1037 of 2000 copies printed. One of the most famous examples of that genre of fin-de-siècle literary works penned by an educated but demoralized educated English elite who experienced the crucible of ‘the Great War’. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, fresh and unmarked copy, as new. Slipcase has a single round dark spot on middle of spine, most probably a label now long removed, else fine. Fine in a near fine slipcase.