Title: The Book of Cupid - being an anthology from the English poets, with twenty-three illustrations by The Lady Hylton, and an Introduction by Henry Newbolt

Author: Lady Hylton and Henry Newbolt

Publisher: Constable and Company Limited, London

Edition: De-Luxe Edition - First Printing of the First Edition

Date Printed: 1909

Description:  Scarce. De-Luxe illustrated book in publisher's fine vellum gilt binding. Nicely signed by the illustrator, Alice Hylton, to the wife of Henry Newbolt, Margaret (nee Duckworth, of the publishing family). Publisher's fine vellum gilt binding. Top edge gilt. Original endpapers. Printed on fine paper at the Chiswick Press. 171 pages. 

In excellent condition, with slight bumping to the corner-tips and spine-ends, and age-toning to the vellum boards and spine (see pictures).   Light browning to endpapers. Internally clean. Alice Hylton's inscription to the second free endpaper. Binding sound and square. An excellent copy of this very scarce book.

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