1910s Illustrated Quarto, Pamela Bianco's Flora - a Book of Drawings With Illustrative Poems

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de la Mare, Walter [Pamela Bianco, illustrator]. Flora - A Book of Drawings with Illustrative Poems.

London: William Heinemann / … Read more de la Mare, Walter [Pamela Bianco, illustrator]. Flora - A Book of Drawings with Illustrative Poems.

London: William Heinemann / Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., circa 1919, first edition. 4to; 43 pp. Manila paper, age-toned edges, rubbed and gently bumped spine crown/heel and board tips, gray lettered spine and front board, text interspersed with 41 illustrations, 8 in color including tissue guarded frontispiece, pictorial dust jacket, rear hinge split, damp-stained with wear at extremities - chipped spine with loss at crown/heel and tears at folds; 4, 1.75, 1 inch. Printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son. Very good in a poor dust jacket. $200.

A beautifully presented edition with distinctive pre-Raphaelite inspiration, quite rare in the original dust jacket. See less