The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox
Book
Bound for Beauty #83
xxxvii, 260, [4] p. : ill.
Note: publisher's advertisements for Cranford Series to rear.
Follows Felix Summerly's (Sir Henry Cole's) version for children, which was adapted from Caxton's. The introduction and notes attempt to give the adult reader a condensed account of the latest results of research in folk-lore and literary history.
2017.11.3
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1890s
7-1/4 in
4-3/4 in
W. Frank Calderon
First
The Cranford Series
London
England
1895
R. & R. Clark
Edinburgh
ScotlandUnited Kingdom
Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series
A.A. Turbayne
Bound in gilt-pictorial dark green cloth in a signed binding by A.A. Turbayne, showing a fox and birds in an elaborate art nouveau floral arrangement on the cover, with two distinctive designs on the spine. All edges gilt, coated endpapers.
Felix Summerly
Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection