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Buckland Wright.-Mathers.Love Night,1/5vellum

number 3 of 5 copies on vellum signed by the artist and with an extra suite of plates, from an edition limited to 200, wood-engraved title-vignette and decorative border and illustrations by John Buckland Wright, some full-page, extra plates also on vellum and loose in pocket at end, original vellum by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, g.e., cloth slip-case slightly soiled, [Pertelote 113; Reid A23a], 8vo, Golden Cockerel Press, 1936.

***"The artist's first commission for the Golden Cockerel Press and a major turning-point in his career." Reid "The binding of the vellum copies...in vellum stretched over raised bands, by a long-forgotten process, was a triumph which experts cannot fail to admire." Pertelote.

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