Ivanhoe. Design and original cuts

by Allen Lewis by Sir Walter Scott

$150 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Signed

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. 2 vols., 8vo, xxvi, 612 pp. Linoleum cut illustrations printed in two colors. Silver cloth with embossed chainmail design, red lettering to backstrip. Fine in somewhat shelf-worn and stained slipcase. § Copy #1290 of 1500 numbered copies, signed by the designer Allen Lewis. Lewis was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1873 and studied at the Ecole des Beaus Arts in Paris. He returned to New York in 1902, where he became a

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