The Apocrypha According to the Authorized Version

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Copy XXIX of 30 SPECIAL copies printed on handmade paper with the additional suite of plates , for a total of 33, all signed by the artists apart from the Kennington and the Underwood prints (as is usual). The Apocrypha, bound in full black vellum over boards, edges a little rubbed, spine with gilt title. Internally, limitation leaf, half title, title, [9], 406 pp, [1] printers marque, 19 B&W full page illustrations, t.e.g., remainder uncut. There were also 450 ordinary copies on mould-made paper). Accompanied by a black portfolio, containing 14 additional full page illustrations, all pencil signed & mounted within cream paper leaves. Book & Portfolio each with a book label to fpd (Stoughton R. Vogel, M.D.), all housed together in the original large black cloth double slipcase, a trifle worn. Book 337*219mm; Prints 337*223mm; Slipcase 362*246 mm), wood engravings, respectively by Blair Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes, Leon Underwood, Stephen Gooden, Rene Ben Sussan, M. E. Groom, Eric Jones, Wladislaw Skocaylas, Hester Sainsbury, Frank Medworth, Eric Kennington, Eric Ravilious, John Nash & D. Galanis. A remarkable suite of illustrations, including many of the foremost illustrators of the period, printed at the Curwen Press. The Cresset Press was an imprint founded by Dennis Cohen who published several finely printed and illustrated books over four years between 1927 and 1931. Some of these are among the finest productions of the period.