Minxes Admonished or Beauty Reproved.
An Album of Deplorable Caprices Faithfully Narrated & Modestly Embellished...
Stock Code 113331
[London], The Golden Cockerel Press, 1955
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A near- fine example of the specially bound Golden Cockerel Press publication of Minxes Admonished, a mischievous work by Sir William Russell Flint, who paid for the book to be produced by the press to serve as a vehicle for his own drawings and water-colours.n
First edition, number 122 of 150 specially bound copies, from an overall limitation of 550 signed copies; small folio (30.5 x 18 cm); printed in red & black, colour frontispiece and title vignette, tinted vignette and full-page illustrations, marbled endpapers,original scarlet morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt device to upper cover and foot of spine, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, with a suite of 8 additional variant plates & studies with index in marbled wrappers (short tears), a near- fine copy.
First edition, number 122 of 150 specially bound copies, from an overall limitation of 550 signed copies; small folio (30.5 x 18 cm); printed in red & black, colour frontispiece and title vignette, tinted vignette and full-page illustrations, marbled endpapers,original scarlet morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt device to upper cover and foot of spine, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, with a suite of 8 additional variant plates & studies with index in marbled wrappers (short tears), a near- fine copy.
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