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London: Cecil Palmer & Hayward, 1916. First Edition Deluxe, Limited to 350 copies of which this is no. 185. Folio, publisher's decorative gilt-tooled vellum over paper boards, top edge gilt, housed in a custom cloth slipcase; tipped in color frontispiece and three color plates tipped in, full-page illus. and decorative borders printed in pale orange throughout. Signed by the author and illustrator on colophon. Eden Phillpotts is perhaps best known as the author of The Lavender Dragon. To quote Lin Carter, "His chosen area is a reconstruction of the World of the Greek and Roman myths. In this fantasy world
Phillpotts has created a milieu and an ambience that rather reminds me of Thomas Burnett Swann."
Printed in London for Lippincott, Philadelphia. Some chipping to paper spine label. Still a very nice copy of this Large Illustrated Edition.