Hathor, and other poems. (With an original watercolour by the author)

A$2,500 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

London : Greening Co., Ltd., 1905. Large paper issue of the Author s Edition , limited to 25 numbered and signed copies containing an original watercolour drawing by the author. Small quarto (250 x 200 mm), publisher s gilt-ruled quarter morocco over cloth with Hume Nisbet stamped in gilt on upper board (boards with moderate staining and a little darkened, corners bumped), spine lettered in gilt (worn at head and tail and scuffed along the joints); top edge cut and gilded, fore- and bottom edges uncut; original marbled endpapers; original watercolour of The Flying Dutchman as frontispiece, signed and dated in the image by the artist Hume Nisbet 1905 , captioned by the artist Vanderdecken (captain of the legendary ghost ship) and with the artist s annotation at lower left in ms. in red No. 6 / This drawing has no replica. H. N. ; title page in red and black with vignette illustration; first blank with the author s ms. colophon and signature This Edition is limited to 25 copies of which this is No. 6 / Hume Nisbet , and with a later gift inscription above dated 1925; pp. xx, 332, [4] (Publisher s Notice and ads.); partially unopened, some edges roughly cut; occasional light spotting, otherwise internally very clean; binding firm; a good example. A very scarce limited edition of this collection of verse by Scottish-born writer, artist and traveller Hume Nisbet (1849-1923), containing an original watercolour by him. Hathor and other poems was the first of four stand-alone volumes

• Binding: Hardcover

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