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Limited Edition of 500 on B.R. Rag paper, First Edition. Hard cover in publisher's original quarter red cloth with yellow paper-covered boards, and applied, printed paper label to spine, 51 pp. Lacking glassine jacket, but now in protective mylar. Publisher's colophon states the copies in the Limited Edition printed by William Edwin Rudge, Mount Vernon, NY, October, 1925.** Printer's colophon at rear shows the device of Bruce Rogers, noted typographer and book designer.** Condition: Very Good Plus with a few light marks to covers, slight corner wear, and remaining mostly unopened. Front hinge partly cracked. Otherwise, the interior is clean, bright, and unwritten in. ** This one-act drama about the medieval national Spanish hero known as El Cid, was written by the multi-talented Bloomsbury poet, dramatist, artist, critic and translator T. Sturge Moore ( 1870-1944.), who had associations with W.B. Yeats, Shannon and Ricketts of the Vale Press, and was an ancillary member of London's Bloomsbury Set through his brother, the philosopher G. E. Moore. He was author of thirty one plays. Warde & Haas, Kennikat Press, (1968), 113. Rogers, Paragraphs on Printing (Dover, 1979), p. 64. (title pg.) Warde, Bruce Rogers Designer of Books, (Harvard, 1926) pl. 15 (colophon.) Ransom, (1929), "Rogers" checklist, No. 4, p. 402.
Ref: BLOOM 8309
$75.00