Letter of Maria Edgeworth and Anna Letitia Barbauld
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1953. Lettice Sandford. 8vo., 10 x 6 inches (252 x 151 mm), 88 pp. Caslon Old Face 14 pt type with Imprint Shadow titling on Arnold's mould-made paper. 300 numbered copies on mould-made paper, of which this is copy 259. Engravings from drawings by Lettice Sandford hand-colored in pink and blue and bound in pink and blue cloth with 2 gilt medallion portraits on the front board and gilt lettering on spine, very light sunning on spine. Previous owner's mark embossed on flyleaf.
[Cock-a-Hoop 193].
The engraved the illustrations for these vivacious letters from two popular contemporaries of Jane Austen, were done by Lettice Sandford, wife of Christopher Sandford who took over the Golden Cockerel Press from Robert Gibbings in 1933.
Condition: Fine.
Item number: 767
Price: $125.00
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