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First edition, Limited to 469 copies printed for members only, each plate signed by the artists in pencil below the engravings. Hard cover, small 4to., in full calf blocked with gold double rules and the title vertically down the spine. Included in the original double slipcase with applied printed paper label. 32 (unnumbered) pages printed on a cream japon-like parchment, with the Society's logo in blue to prelims, followed by facing pages with frontispiece illustration of a churchyard and the pictorial title engraved within an architectural frame, finely detailed with four landscape vignettes and alternating neoclassical scrolls. "Entire text engraved on copper, with nine etchings, artist signed, and two supplementary pages of printed textual matter." (as in bibliography)**CONDITION: Very Good Plus, or better. A few small spots to boards, (on rear especially). Handsewn binding is a tad loose. Slipcase about Near Fine with only a bit of abrasion at top front edge, as seen.**The Bibliophile Society was founded in Boston in 1901. As described in their charter: "...for the purpose of the study and promotion of the arts pertaining to fine book making and illustrating, and to the occasional publication of of specially designed and illustrated books for the distribution among it's members at a minimum cost of production." **Englishman Thomas Gray's famous poem "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," was written in 1751. Boston-born printmaker William Harry Warren Bicknell (1860-1947) trained at The Boston Museum School of Fine Arts under Otto Grundman and Frederick Crowninshield. His work with the Bibliophile Society included etchings for the 1903 Howard Pyle-illustrated "The Bibliomaniac." He died in Provincetown. (Delaware Art Museum) REF: "The Thirteenth Year Book," (Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1914) p. 94. Rare in the slipcase.
Ref: ILLUS 9385
$250.00