[Lynd Ward | Signed] The Ballad of Reading Gaol E-List 12 A Modern Specimen of Parchment

A Modern Specimen of Parchment

and she set up her bindery in his rooms at 29 Gilbert Street when he moved out to Ewell in 1902

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co

original initial designs that don't seem to reference other presses of the period

Rubbing to edges and joints

[Lynd Ward | Signed] The Ballad of Reading Gaol E-List 12 A Modern Specimen of ParchmentWilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. New York: Macy Masius The Vanguard Press, 1928. Composition and presswork by the Marchbanks Press. Limited to 2000 copies. Full page illustrations and page decorations in mezzotint by Lynd Ward; his first fine press book. With a somewhat ironic inscription from Ward opposite the title page: "With a special inscription because this is the first book. Lynd Ward". Bound in full black morocco with title in gilt to