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FITZGERALD, Edward (1809-83) | BULL, René (illustrated by, 1872-1942) SKU: 20369 Barcode:
First Bulll Edition, signed by the artist, number 117 of a Limited Edition of 250 copies signed by the artist. Quarto (12 x 9 ins). Original cream vellum with ornate design in gold and blue to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt. Ten full-page tipped-in colour plates behind captioned tissue-guards and 19 smaller mounted colour plates, plus line drawings and borders throughout, all by René Bull. Half-title and leaf opposite with splashes of foxing, never heavy, also rear endpaper and the occasional light foxing to other pages, text printed only on one side. Bottom of the spine rubbed and a touch embrowned. Lacking the ties; top edge of the pages gilt, others untrimmed. Without inscriptions or other text markings save for the ink signature of the artist below to limitation page. A VG+ copy of this spectacular work carrying the 75 quatrains of FitzGerald's version.
