THE BOOK OF RUTH. Translated out of the Original Tongues: and with Former Translations diligently compared and revised by HIS MAJESTY'S special command

London Nonesuch Press, 1923. 8vo., publisher's batik paper covered flexible boards; in a paper-covered slipcase with the publisher's label echoing the title-page text. Case a little worn and a bit soiled having performed its job.One of just 250 copies printed in modified Caslon type on handmade laid paper; the text is set within a series of borders, "enlarged from copies of those designed by Bernard Salomon for Jean de Tournes." The books of the aforementioned mid-sixteenth century Lyonese printer are notable for their typography, for the woodcuts of Le Petit Bernard, and for their imaginative arabesque borders printed here by Francis Meynell in brick-red, which contrasts dramatically with the color of the type and the color of the paper. A handsome and MUCH SOUGHT-AFTER early Nonesuch Press title. Dreyfus 3. ONE OF THE HANDSOMEST BOOKS OF THE PRESS