OF THE FRIENDSHIP OF AMIS AND AMILE.
- Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894.
- 12mo.
- original publisher's quarter cloth with Holland backed blue paper-covered boards.
- (iv), 67+(1) pages.
- ISBN: none
Price: $2,000.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 43962
Printed in an edition limited to 515 copies of which this is one of 500 copies printed on paper. (Cockerel 23, Peterson A23, Walsdorf 23). Very light rubbing to the Holland backed boards, else a fine copy. Printed in Chaucer type, in black and red, and is uniform in size with the romances from the French, as well as the same borders to the frontispiece or title page (FORMAN 151). A note which appeared in the announcement of this book stated "This tale dates from about the same period as that of KING FLORUS, and its literary & historical value is equally high." With a beautiful woodcut as the spread title page, woodcut initial letters and printing in red and black.