[Vale Press] A Defence of the Revival of Printing E-List 36 with rectangular frame of tulips

with rectangular frame of tulips

Pont's small bookplate to front pastedown

London: Printed at the Press of the Guild of Handicraft Limited under the supervision of C

Slate grey wrappers with faded title in metallic gold to the front cover

[Vale Press] A Defence of the Revival of Printing E-List 36 with rectangular frame of tulipsRicketts, Charles. A Defence of the Revival of Printing. London: Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts [The Vale Press], 1899. One of 250 copies. Printed on Arnold handmade paper. Woodcut illustration and border, initial, and press device, including full pictorial first page, by Ricketts. Printed with Vale Fount of type designed by Ricketts. Bound in light brown calf with dual gilt ruled borders to both covers, featuring gouged diamonds in the center