PEAKE, Mervyn

Quest for Sita. Of Ravana the Dark Angel and his Paradise at Lanka, of Hanuman and the Divine Vultures Jatayus and Sampati.

Description

4to. 285 x 205mm, very dark blue pictorial buckram, spine blocked in red, lettered & ornamented in gilt, upper cover blocked with Sita design in red, pp.xii, 162 + final blank leaf, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Title-page vignette & 30 full-page line-drawings. Limited to 500 copies on English hand-made paper. Limitation slip mounted on front free endpaper. D/w darkened and frayed, price-clipped (crudely), loss at head of spine and 10cm tear at front fold.

Quest for Sita

Item details

Publisher: Faber and Faber.
Format: Cloth
Date: 1946
Place: London
Edition: First edition
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 021454