The Marriage of Cupid and Psyches. (Haarlem: Joh. Enschedé), 1936. Octavo. 47pp. One of fifty copies signed by the artist. Illustrated with a frontispiece, headpiece, seven full page plates and a vignette from engravings in copper by John Buckland Wright, protected with tissue guards. The text was printed by Enschedé, and the engravings were printed by the illustrator. Bound in limp vellum wrappers gilt-titled to spine, with a design of Cupid and Psyche by Buckland Wright in gilt on the front cover. Housed in a slipcase covered in paper decorated with the initials "J.B.W." printed in yellow. Light toning to slipcase edges, a touch of soiling to vellum, armorial bookplate offsetting to endleaves, otherwise about fine.
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