[Fine Binding | Zaehnsdorf] The Bab Ballads Fine Bindings Some rubbing to slipcase

Some rubbing to slipcase

Extra illustrated with 26 highly-skilled watercolors in the margins of the book

Woodcuts by Charles Gere after W

with corresponding stain to text

The eighth work in the Essex House Press Great Poems Series

[Fine Binding | Zaehnsdorf] The Bab Ballads Fine Bindings Some rubbing to slipcaseGilbert, W. S. The "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little Sense. London: George Routledge and Sons, n. d. [circa 1890s]. Illustrated by the author. Bound in dark navy leather by Zaehnsdorf with the character Ben Allah Achmet in inlaid and painted leather in the bottom right hand corner of the front board. Title and author in gilt to spine. Elaborate gilt rolled turn ins with blue marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Measures approx. 5. 25" x 7. 25". Some