[Rarebooks] fa: KAY NIELSEN - IN POWDER & CRINOLINE 1913 - DELUXE ISSUE w/ 2 EXTRA COLOR PLATES

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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Arthur Quiller-Couch; Kay Nielsen, illustrator: In Powder & Crinoline : Old Fairy Tales. [London:] Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. Large 4to (32 x 26 cm; 12.5 x 10 in); parchment spine and corners over paper-covered boards, with gilt-lettered leather spine label; top page-edges gilt, other edges untrimmed; 164 pp.; 26 tipped-in color plates with printed tissue-guards, and numerous in-text illustrations and decorations.

An uncommon "deluxe" issue, not one of the signed limited edition of 500, but physically larger than the first trade edition and, like the signed limited edition, with two plates not found in the trade edition, which had only twenty-four plates. A leading dealer in illustrated books has hypothesized that this edition was probably issued in a small number by the publisher for friends. The present copy is in what we assume to be the original publisher's binding, making it especially uncommon.

Wear to the edges and spine ends, small chips to the parchment along the rear joint, a few light spots to the rear board; toning to the edges of the leaves; two text leaves with a row of small pin-holes along the inner margin, presumably a production flaw (not affecting any text); gutter slightly cracked between two of the page-gatherings, but the binding is secure; upper edges of two of the leaves on which plates are mounted (not the plates themselves) show evidence of paperclips having once been present; otherwise clean and sound, firmly bound, the plates fine and bright. Despite the mostly unobtrusive faults listed above, a very handsome example of a handsomely produced book, Nielsen's first English illustrated work.