[Rarebooks] fs: Old Ireland, a King, and a Woman -Riccardi Press 1912

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Riccardi Press. THE KING WHO KNEW NOT FEAR,
 A Tale of Other Days. By O.R.

London; Philip Lee Warner: 1912.
Edition limited to 500 copies.

The Riccardi Press was a Medici Society imprint, begun in 1909 by Herbert
P. Horne who designed the typeface; an edition of The Song of Songs Which
Is Solomon's was the first book published by the Press. They also
published Marcus Aurelius, Le Morte d'Arthur, Swinburne, Thomas Gray,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Rupert Brooke, a Rubaiyat, and Chaucer. The
Press continued into the 1930s. This is Booklet Number One from their
Booklet series, printed at the Press by Charles T. Jacobi. It is a tale of
Old Ireland, a King, and a Woman...

Hardcover. 6.5"x9.5", 30 pages, bound in full pigskin with marbled
endpapers. A little light internal soil; Covers with some wear at the
edges, spine flaking; there is a crack inside the front hinge and on the
outer leather another crack runs about one and a half inches down from the
top; the top of the spine head is slightly chipped. Probably in need of a
little stabilization by an expert. [03365] $100.00


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