[Merrymount Press] Broadside with Arts & Crafts Border by J.E. Hill (1894) Extra Illustrated under whose supervision the book

under whose supervision the book was printed at the Ballantyne Press

Bound in royal blue crushed morocco with a fascinating Arts & Craft design

Henry Frowde

Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd / Boston: Small

Includes original brown rag paper dust jacket

[Merrymount Press] Broadside with Arts & Crafts Border by J.E. Hill (1894) Extra Illustrated under whose supervision the book"Messrs. John Dickinson and Company Ltd. Papermakers, desire to announce that they have removed their offices to number sixty six Fifth Avenue." Designed and printed by Daniel Berkeley Updike, founder of the Merrymount Press. Printed in 1894 in red and black inks using blackletter fonts. Black and white Kelmscott style border by J. E. Hill, "who did much of Updike's early designing" (Thompson). Deckled right edge. Measures 12 x 8. 75. Some slight age