Twenty-Four Portraits fabric with orange dust-wrapper

with orange dust-wrapper

Its unexpected popularity and critical success obliged the publisher to print a second impression in April of the same year

slightly rubbed and bumped at edges

by Charles Ricketts

upon eating the lotos

Twenty-Four Portraits fabric with orange dust-wrapperWith critical appreciations by various hands London: George Allen & Unwin, 1920. Original grey paper covered boards with dun cloth spine, with title label to front and spine, which is rubbed and darkened, boards rubbed at extremities. Former ownership signature to first free endpaper. Amongst those portrayed are Max Beerbohm, Anrold Bennett, T. J. Cobden Sanderson, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, T. E. Lawrence, H. G. Wells.