1912 The Bookman Special Xmas Number 1912

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, numerous further monochrome illustrations, eighteen colour mounted plates by artists including Arthur Rackham, Frank Brangwyn, Hugh Thomson and others, including mounted colour plates from Edmund Dulac, illustrating the scenes from the poems of Edgar Allan Poe. 

With a portrait photograph of Kipling to the front board, and with the first article in the volume being an essay on Kipling by Dixon Scott.

Further articles include 'The Poetry of George Meredith' by Alice Meynell, 'The Real Gissing' by Frank Swinnerton, and 'Girls and Fairies' by Katharine Tynan'.

With three loosely inserted advertisement leaves. Two advertisement leaves removed from rear.

The Bookman was a monthly magazine published in London from 1891 to 1934, presenting a catalogue of current publications, reviews, advertising, and illustrations.