[Lynd Ward | Signed] The Ballad of Reading Gaol E-List 14 featuring wide borders created with

featuring wide borders created with individual compartments of elaborate arabesque tooling on the top

Gilt ruled covers with blind tooled bands extending onto the covers from spine bands

in an edition of 200 copies

longtime editor at Little

May 1944 / In memory of dear Uncle Edward"

[Lynd Ward | Signed] The Ballad of Reading Gaol E-List 14 featuring wide borders created withWilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. New York: Macy Masius The Vanguard Press, 1928. Composition and presswork by the Marchbanks Press. Limited to 2000 copies. Full page illustrations and page decorations in mezzotint by Lynd Ward; his first fine press book. With a somewhat ironic inscription from Ward opposite the title page: "With a special inscription because this is the first book. Lynd Ward". Bound in full black morocco with title in gilt to