The Happy Hypocrite
London: John Lane, (1915). First Printing. Hardcover. First edition with these illustrations. Small quarto, pictorial cloth, good to very good, rubbing and light wear to edges of covers and spine ends, light soil and darkening to rear cover, spine darkened and mellowed with title hard to read, endpapers show light toning, old bookseller’s tag for Gotham Book Mart on rear endpaper, contents very good but the paper used for the onionskin plate guards has tanned, which has left offsetting to the plates and facing pages, including title page and frontispiece. With 24 color plates by Sheringham. Some bibliophiles think that the preface date (1915) should be used as the date of the book, but others think this was not published till 1918. Good / No Jacket. Item #0086872
Price: $40.00