[Children's & Illustrated] [Clarke, Harry] Group of Two Signed Limited Editions

Walters, L(ettice). D'O(yly). (editor)
The Year's at the Spring...
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1920. First and deluxe limited edition, #149/250 numbered copies, signed by Clarke. 4to. (iv), (128) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece, 12 color plates, and 12 black and white plates, and several in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's full vellum, stamped in gilt, purple, and yellow (slightly bowed); top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; offsetting to endpapers; one plate and page with tissue guard; plate at p. 56 detached; very light foxing throughout, mostly to text.

Together with:

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Faust
London: George G. Harrap & Company Ltd., (1925). First and deluxe limited edition, #637 of 1,000 numbered copies of the English issue, signed by Clarke (from a larger edition of 2,000). 4to. (vi), (256) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece, 7 color plates, 13 black and white plates, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's quarter vellum, head and tail caps bumped, over paper-covered boards, lightly soiled, tips worn; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; illustrated endpapers; light offsetting to some pages opposite plates;

This was the last book illustrated by Harry Clarke.

Provenance

From the Children’s and Illustrated Books Library of Nicholas Wedge, Ossining, New York