Ballads Weird and Wonderful
London: The Bodley Head, 1912. Vernon Hill. Limited edition. Hardcover. Limited to 500 copies. 25 drawings by Vernon Hill. Introduction by the ostensible editor, R.P. Chope.
"Elves and fairies, demons and witches run riot through these pages and dance through the pictures. Here we have a revel of the bizarre, the whimsical, the extraordinary." After this Chope goes on to spend most of the lengthy introduction endoring the work of Hill, also mentioning his previous (and very scarce) books The Arcadian Calendar and The New Inferno.
The 25 plates are soft-textured and finely printed, either by lithography or a rotogravure process. Pictorial cover with title and picture embossed in gilt. Pictorial endpapers.
Tips gently bumped, spine very lightly sunned. Interior paper, the text pages appearing to be hand made, are extremely bright. All plates have tissue guards. Fine. Item #30385
Price: $600.00