Late Reliques Of Old London
- Hardcover
- London: George Bell & Sons, 1898
London: George Bell & Sons, 1898. Hardcover. Orig. quarter vellum and brown cloth lettered in gilt, lacking original ties. Very good. 33 x 25.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 15 of 25 portfolios containing 24 hand-printed proofs signed in pencil by T.R. Way, and signed on the limitation notation by Way.. The first edition of 280 copies printed a year earlier were neither signed nor hand-printed. Laid-in, eight page booklet of "Short Notes taken from Mr. H.B. Wheatley's Descriptions" provided gratis -- fairly detailed descriptions of each plate. All plates mounted on heavy stock. Plates clean, wear at portfolio spine extremities, soiling to vellum.