[Lynd Ward | Signed] The Ballad of Reading Gaol E-List 14 Gilt ruled covers with blind

Gilt ruled covers with blind tooled bands extending onto the covers from spine bands

May 1944 / In memory of dear Uncle Edward"

Includes a printed letter from Lucien Moore Robinson

which to Hill was a role more like today's social worker

[Lynd Ward | Signed] The Ballad of Reading Gaol E-List 14 Gilt ruled covers with blindWilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. New York: Macy Masius The Vanguard Press, 1928. Composition and presswork by the Marchbanks Press. Limited to 2000 copies. Full page illustrations and page decorations in mezzotint by Lynd Ward; his first fine press book. With a somewhat ironic inscription from Ward opposite the title page: "With a special inscription because this is the first book. Lynd Ward". Bound in full black morocco with title in gilt to