THE CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, SPAIN AND OTHER PLACES ADJOINING.
(New York: Limited Editions Club , 1959).
POMP AND PAGENTRY. PITZ'S 2 PAGE COLOR SPREADS ARE RESPLENDENT WITH COLOUR AND ACTION. An impressive modern rendering of this highly important medieval classic. Item #27968
First of the edition, one of 1,500 copies only, signed by the artist, with the prospectus and the letter laid in. Illustrated with sixteen double-spread line-and-wash paintings by Henry C. Pitz. 8vo, in the publisher s original blue buckram over boards, spine decorated with a red and blue escutcheon and lettered in gilt, the covers are pictorially decorated with an overall design of blue escutcheons. In the original decorated slipcase. xxxviii, 748 pp. A very fine copy, as pristine.
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